Title:
Letter from John Muir to [William] Colby, 1911 Jan 11.
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:
[William] Colby
Date:
1911 Jan 11
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir20_0048-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Los Angeles
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
http://library.pacific.edu/ha/forms
Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
Los Angeles, Cal., Jan. 11, 1911. 325 West Adams Street. My dear Mr, Colby:- Many thanks for the maps. They are just
what I wanted. You forwarded a letter for me the other day from Charles Dutton in which he says that with the letter he had
sent me a book. If not too heavy and clumsy I wish you would address it to me here, and charge the stamps to my account.
I am glad you liked the opening chapter of My First Summer. As to the way it reads, there is no secret about it that 1 know
of, or I would send it along, as you propose. I think if the Hetch-Hetchy question holds on for another year or two that Mr.
and Mrs. Parsons and yourself will be able to write any number of Sierra Books, although as you know, it is hard work anyhow.
I am pegging away at the Yosemite now and find it hard to know what to leave out. The fact is I have been collecting material
for it for forty odd years and I am embarrassed with the amount of notes I have. Be sure to tell me how Keith is and if he
received the books I sent in your care, viz., two copies of Stickeen, the two books he wished. They were sent as soon as I
received his letter. Wit With many thanks, and kind regards, I am, Faithfully yours, John Muir