Title:
Letter from John Muir to Walter H. Page, 1897 Apr 16.
Creator:
John Muir
Publisher:
The Houghton Library, Harvard University. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission
to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Contributor:
Walter H. Page
Date:
1897 Apr 16
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir09_0844-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Martinez [Calif.]
Rights:
Copyrighted
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to publish or exhibit them, see
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Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
Martinez, California, Apr 16, 1897. Dear Sir, I sent off today an article to Harpers Weekly on parks reservations now
I'm going to see what I can do for the Atlantic. I may succeed in hammering welding some ideas into shape for you but it will
take a long time. You speak of forests lending themselves to this article business, but I never found anything lend itself
to literature in my hands. When I write I find it hard unnatural work, I have to go out for articles compel them to come in
like a cowboy dragging steers with a rope. I have already got a tail - not tale - for a brushy article but the body head are
still in the Wilderness. Ever Yours John Muir Walter H. Page Esq./ W H P