Title:
Letter from [John Muir] to C. M. Bellshaw, 1905 Feb 28.
Creator:
[John Muir]
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:
C. M. Bellshaw
Date:
1905 Feb 28
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir15_0269-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 21 x 17 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
[Martinez, Calif.]
Rights:
Copyrighted
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Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
first draft of letter. in note-book Martinez. Feb. 28. '05. Hon. C. M. Belshaw, Capitol. Sacramento. My dear Senator:
I most heartily thank and congratulate you on the passage of the Yosemite recession bill - a great work triumphantly consummated
under your able leadership, and which will be preserved in history and your name with it long after a thousand others, hotly
debated and seemingly more important, have been utterly forgotten. The great park with its snowy mountains and songful rivers,
its score or more of glaciers, magnificent forests, cliffs, waterfalls, glacier lakes, and lawns, gardens, and groves, is
in many of its features unrivalled. It is not yet half known or appreciated. From age to age its fame will grow, and that
your name is associated with it is something of which you may well be proud. Again, thanking and congratulating you, I am,
Faithfully yours, John Muir