Title:
Letter from Walter H. Page to John Muir, 1899 Jun 3.
Creator:
Walter H. Page
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:
1899 Jun 3
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir10_0832-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 21.5 x 28 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Boston
Rights:
Copyright status unknown
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Transcription:
read and corrected here, because it could hardly follow you to Alaska and I could not for a moment think of delaying its publication
until you should come back and have time to read the proof and send it across the continent to me again. This is too good
a thing to wait that long for. Besides, your copy is very plain indeed, and I think we shall make no mistakes. Very heartily
yours, Walter illegible Mr. John Muir. June 3, 1899. My dear Mr. Muir, This will not reach you, I know, until you
get back from Alaska, and then it will sound like a chapter of ancient history; but I write to acknowledge the article on
the Yosemite Park and your promise, as soon as wind and weather permit, of the other; articles about specific features of
the Park, to which I look forward with very keen anticipation. I hope that you and Mr. Burroughs and all the other boys are
having a good time, as of course I know you are, and when you come back you ought to write at four or five times your usual
speed. Then, as now, you may know that the wide pages of the Atlantic yawn for you. I shall undertake to have your proof
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