Title:
Letter from F[rancis] J. Garrison to John Muir, 1909 Jul 12.
Creator:
F[rancis] J. Garrison
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:
1909 Jul 12
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir18_0613-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 28 x 21.5 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Boston
Rights:
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Transcription:
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY 4 PARK STREET BOSTON Jv y 12, 1909. John Muir, Esq., Martinez, Calif. Dear Mr. Muir: We
are in receipt of your favor of the 1st inst., in which you say that you have decided to make no further change or addition
in the park book, but will include in the Yo Semite book which you now have on the stocks whatever you may wish to say regarding
recent changes. There are a few points, however, in which the present volume seems to require slight corrections to bring
it up to date and to conform to present facts, and we understood from Mr. Gleason that when he saw you he would call your
attention to these. Since receiving your letter we hear that he is with you, and it is possible that illegible some of these
points may be already on the way from you. To particularize, it seems to us that the notes on pages 12 and 34 should be revised;since
there are now 12 Parks and 149 Forest Reservations (146 in the United States), besides 19 National Monuments, and the Forest
Service must have been enlarged since 1900. The area of some of the Porest Reservations as given in the text is larger than
as given in the Porest Report of March 31, 1909, probably on account of the sub-division of some of the Reservations. Thus
the Bitterroot Reservation is stated in the book to be more than 4,000,000 acres, while in the Report it appears as 1,180,900
acres; also the Sierra is credited in the book with over 4,000,000 acres, while the Porest Report makes it 1,935,680 acres.
Would you not prefer to have your notes conform to the facts? Yours very truly, Houghton Mifflin Company, illegible
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