Title:
Letter from Walter H. Page to John Muir, 1897 Jun 25.
Creator:
Walter H. Page
Publisher:
University of the Pacific Library Holt-Atherton Special Collections. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies
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Contributor:
John Muir
Date:
1897 Jun 25
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir09_0932-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 21.5 x 28 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Boston
Rights:
Copyright status unknown
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Transcription:
2 have you made any definite arrangment about the publication of the book? If you have not, why might I not use such portions
as you would care to have appear in magazine form, and then perhaps you will let me present the book publishing scheme to
Messrs Houghton, Mifflin Co? I am looking forward with some eagerness to the coming of your next paper--on Parks.--Maybe
these new papers will continue til they, too, make a volume. Very Sincerely Yours, Walter H. Page John Muir Esq. letterhead
25, June, 1897. Dear Mr Muir: We are getting your paper on The American Forests ready for the press, and Professor Sargent
is writing to accompany it a brief statement of the recent work done to preserve them. That Professor Sargent is writing this
little accompanying paper is a sort of secret, and I would not tell it outside the family. He told me the other day that
you have in preparation a book about Alaska. If that be the case, let me ask if there be not portions of it that might be
used in the Atlantic before they are published in book form. And, by the way, 02303