Title:
Letter from John Muir to [Henry Fairfield] Osborn, 1913 Jul 15.
Creator:
John Muir
Publisher:
University of the Pacific Library Holt-Atherton Special Collections. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies
of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Contributor:
[Henry Fairfield] Osborn
Date:
1913 Jul 15
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir21_0585-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Martinez [Calif.]
Rights:
Copyrighted
The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission
to publish or exhibit them, see
http://library.pacific.edu/ha/forms
Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
illegible Martinez, .July 15, 1913 Dear Friend Osborn I had no thought of your leaving your own great work and manyfold
duties to go before the House Committee on the everlasting HetchHetchy fight, but only to write to members of Congress you
might know,especially to President Wilson a Princeton man. This is the 23rd fyear of almost continual battle for preservation
of Yosemite NationalPark, sadly interrupting my natural work. Our enemies now seem to behaving most everything their own wicked
way working beneath obscuring tariff and bank clouds, spending millions of the peoples money forselfish ends. Think of three
or four ambitious shifty traders politicians calling themselves The City of San Francisco bargaining with the United States
for half of the Yosemite Park like Yankee horse traders, as if the grandest of all our mountain playgrounds full of God's
best gifts, the joy and admiration of the world,were of no more account than any of the long list of tinker tariff articles.
Where are yon going this summer? Wish I could go with you. The pleasure of my long lovely Garrison-Hudson Castle Rock days
grows only the clearer and dearer as the years flow by My love to you, dear friend, and to all who love you Ever gratefully
affectionately John Muir