Title:
Letter from R[obert] U[nderwood] Johnson to John Muir, 1905 Jnn 27.
Creator:
R[obert] U[nderwood] Johnson
Publisher:
University of the Pacific Library Holt-Atherton Special Collections. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies
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Contributor:
John Muir
Date:
1905 Jnn 27
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir15_0558-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 26 x 21 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
New York
Rights:
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Transcription:
June 27, 1905. R.W. GILDER, EDITOR. R. U. JOHNSON, ASSOCIATE EDITOR .C. C. BUEL, ASSISTANT EDITOR. My dear Muir:
I hope you can send are good news of your daughter's health and let me know your whereabouts and your plans for the summer.
Are you by any chance going to Mount Tacoma on that expedition of the Sierra Club? If so, we'd like to have a short article
on the subject. We have had two or three offers but have declined them as they would probably be the ordinary newspaper account
of a trip. What we should want would be your description of the character of the mountain. It being part of my business in
life to lay out your literary work for you, I suggest that you might elaborate your article on the Grand Canon so as to make
a book of it which every traveler to that wonderland would have to buy. But first we ought to have the Yosemite book, combining
the practical with the poetic. Do let me know how you are coming on. Our publishers have recently been asking. Faithfully
yours, illegible Associate Editor John Muir, Esq.