Title:
Letter from W[illiam] B[elmont] Parker to John Muir, 1900 Nov 21.
Creator:
W[illiam] B[elmont] Parker
Publisher:
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Contributor:
John Muir
Date:
1900 Nov 21
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir11_0448-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 21.5 x 28 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Boston
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Transcription:
book is one which would delight a great many people if if were done, and it may be that the acceptance of a third task would
hasten the completion of the other two. As I wrote you when the Fountains and Streams paper, which reached us three or four
weeks ago, came, we are glad to have it. There remains, as I remember, still to come one paper of those necessary to make
up the National Parks book, and I should be very glad if we could be sure of bringing this out in the spring. I should be
obliged if you would give a thought to the Autobiography idea. It is possible that that form of writing might give you Just
the release of stAp and have the untrammelled personal flappr which make books of that sort memorable. Please let me know
how the notion strikes you. Yours sincerely, n.b.parker. Mr. John Muir. EDITORIAL OFFIC OF The Atlantic Mountable.
BOSTON. November 21, 1900. Dear Mr. Muir, John Burroughs has Just been here cutting freely of many things and recalling
withgreat delight the trip he took with you last year to Alaska. He says that while you were together he talked with you more
than once of the possibility of your putting yourself in a book writing your autobiography; and he pleased me very much by
saying that you had a considerable body of material ready for such a task. Knowing with how much toil your writing is done,
this seems to me as I write itj in spite of Mr. Burroughsfs optimism, rather an extravagant suggestion that you should undertake
another book in addition to the two which you have already in hand; but, for all that, the 02756