Letter from John Muir to [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1894 Feb 24.

• Main Author: Muir, John
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholarly Commons 1894
• Subjects: Environmentalist; naturalist; travel; conservation; national parks; John Muir; history; correspondence; letters; Glacier Bay; Underwood; glacier; Alaska
• Online Access: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/6824; https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/muir-correspondence/article/8175/viewcontent/muir08_0139.pdf

Martinez Feb. 24, 1894My dear Mr JohnsonIn my haste yesterday to get off the Alaska M. S. I forgot the maps. I have no good map of the territory, Glacier Bay, or the Muir Glacier, but you can get all those through Miss S[cud?]more. A general sketch map of Alaska may easily be found, but the only maps for Glacier Bay & the Muir Glacier are those of Prof. Harry Fielding Reid. He worked two summers with good instruments borrowed from the Coast Survey in making them. I think they were published by the Appletons. You can easily find them through Miss S[cud?]more. I made rough sketches, but Reids are infinitely better than mine.In looking over the M. S. as I have arranged it you will see that the first article is a general view of the Territory & a description of the steamer trip through Southeastern Alaska as seen by a tourist. The overabundance of material in my mind in going over the route made it difficult to keep from saying too much & to keep from repeating what I had already written on the subject. Still I think you will now find it a fair picture of the trip. Anyhow I have carefully revised it & done my best. This kind of touch-&-go writing is hard for me. Women do it best.The 2nd article--Glacier Bay reads well I think & is not blurred by anything not belonging to it. Your will notice that I have added two pages of introduction01787 2which if you don't like you can easily leave out, and if you wish to add the notes on the Indians they may be placed either as a head or tail to the article under a subtitle. But as I suggested in yesterday's letter if used at all they should with such additions & the setting I can give them from a 3d article.I'm sorry this cold M. S. should have given you so much trouble. I thought at first the article was to be one published in two parts like a combined story, & and writing it I tried to fancy myself on one of the pleasure steamers with a crowd of tourists talking to me. This accounts for the desultoriness you complain of. If your readers would ...