Title:
Letter from David S. Jordon to John Muir, 1903 Feb 10.
Creator:
David S. Jordon
Publisher:
University of the Pacific Library Holt-Atherton Special Collections. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies
of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Contributor:
John Muir
Date:
1903 Feb 10
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir13_0175-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 26.5 x 20 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Stanford University, Calif.
Rights:
Copyright status unknown
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Transcription:
LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT Stanford University, Cal., Feb. 10, 1903. Mr. John Muir,
Martinez, Cal. Dear Sir:- My friend, Bliss Perry, of the Atlantic Monthly, urges me to tell you in ray way that no California
number of the Atlantic, and I may say, of anything else, is complete or satisfactory without a word from you. Perhaps I can
say this much, which you already know very well, that the Atlantic Monthly is the most worthy of all our magazines, and that
Mr. Bliss Perry is one of the most worthy of all its editors, and that for the first time a seaboard magazine has been turning
its attention in our direction, and wishes to have a strictly and distinctly Californian number. As the one who has looked
on California with the clearest eyes of all the men who have seen her, surely this number of the magazine ought to have a
word from you. I have been planning to visit you at Martinez for a long time. If it were not quite so difficult, I should
have been there long ago. One trouble is that we have such absolute confidence in your soundness and sweetness that we do
not need to watch you all the time as we might some poet of whose personality we were less sure. Very truly yours, illegible
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