Title:
Letter from John Muir to [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1897 Mar 6.
Creator:
John Muir
Publisher:
The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of
the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Contributor:
[Robert Underwood] Johnson
Date:
1897 Mar 6
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir09_0776-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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
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Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
57 Martinez, March, 6, 1897 After looking carefully over the ground I found not the slightest chance for Yosemite so late
in the session after all the careless members had traded their votes. So we must just wait we will know better how to work
the thing next time. But Ye Gods What's to be done with the crazy Senate? Voting all on the holy Sabbath day for old-fashioned
diabolical distribution of forests voting unanimously in the face of that admirable report of the Academy Commission. These
Western Senators are a bad lot, but we'll win at last But how long O Lord how long, must destruction go on. Ever faithfully
Yours John Muir in margin: I had a long forest talk with Judge McKenna I think he is all right but may not be our next
Sec.