Title:
Letter from John Muir to [Robert Underwood] Johnson , 1890 Dec 14.
Creator:
John Muir
Publisher:
American Academy of Arts and Letters. 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:
1890 Dec 14
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir06_0758-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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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:
Martinez Dec. 14, 1890. Dear Mr. Johnson, in margin: Ever Yours John Muir. I send you a few of my sketches of the two
Kings River Yosemites some of which you may want. I went to Robinson's studio a few days ago to see what he was doing. He
has about eight large sketches on pasteboard for the South Fork Yosemite. None for the Middle Fork, which he has not seen.
His sketches are grand affairs but are all made up of rock showing no level floor. They might be used as illustrations of
almost any of the grand canon. Lofty sheer-faced cliffs rising abruptly from a illegible park- illegible are the main characteristics
of Yosemite Valleys, I think that there should be at least one general view showing the range of wall-rocks the level park
river between