Title:
Letter from John Muir to [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1897 Apr 17.
Creator:
John Muir
Publisher:
Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin. 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 Apr 17
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir09_0846-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Martinez [Calif.]
Rights:
Copyrighted
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Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
Martinez, April 17, 1897 My dear Mr Johnson, I can't recall Peter French Im sorry to say; but I ll write to Mr S. H. Young
who may be Governor of Alaska, lived there 10 yrs, who doubtless knew him. I'll tell him to send you any good word he can.
Glad to hear the good woods news, Sargent wrote very despondingly the other day,--said his only hope was in the President
which Im glad to see justified. You Sargent must make Bliss miserable until you get the green woods into him through the drygoods.
I have sent (yesterday) an article to Harper's Weekly on the Parks Re serves but whether it will do much good or not I don't
know. I made it as strong as I could but the conversion of thieves by articles is rather hopless. We are sure to win at last--but
while lawgivers deliberate the trees burn soon there will be nothing to save. I have done little besides forest talking writing
for the last two months. Now Im trying to write a forest article or two for the Atlantic, possibly if these s hould be sucessful
the Century may want an article on the same subject. Ever yours J. M. 10024