Letter from R[obert] U[nderwood] J[ohnson] to John Muir, 1897 Aug 3.

[2]Alaska, the adventure on the glacier when the buzzards were looking for you, the Salmon Stories and lots of serious and humorous experience, in short a sort of "Camp-fire talk," even bringing in your "John the Divine" story as sauce to scientific meat This would make a readabl...

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Main Author:	R obert U nderwood J ohnson
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Language:	English
Published:	Scholarly Commons 1897
Subjects:	John Muir correspondence letters author writing naturalist California correspondent mail message post exchange of letters missive notes epistle Yukon glacier Alaska
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spelling	ftunivpacificmsl:oai:scholarlycommons.pacific.edu:jmcl-26640 2023-06-11T04:11:52+02:00 Letter from R[obert] U[nderwood] J[ohnson] to John Muir, 1897 Aug 3. R obert U nderwood J ohnson 1897-08-03T08:00:00Z image/jpeg https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/1707 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmcl/article/26640/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg eng eng Scholarly Commons https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/1707 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmcl/article/26640/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg Some letters written to John Muir may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user. John Muir Correspondence John Muir correspondence letters author writing naturalist California correspondent mail message post exchange of letters missive notes epistle text 1897 ftunivpacificmsl 2023-05-06T22:44:17Z [2]Alaska, the adventure on the glacier when the buzzards were looking for you, the Salmon Stories and lots of serious and humorous experience, in short a sort of "Camp-fire talk," even bringing in your "John the Divine" story as sauce to scientific meat This would make a readable mixture of grave and gay. Your memory is chockful of interesting reminiscences of scentific men of [humor?] Dr. John Hall (!) & others which would be interesting and would relieve the seriousness of the purely scientific material. Will you just save the plums for the Century. And by the way have you anything interesting to say of the Klondike? If so, now is your time.Remember that I shall said for London August 21" and let me have a word about this before I leave--or if that isn't possible wirte Mr. Gilder afterward. I suppose you are with Prof. Sargent by this time If so remember me to him cordially.[3] (Muir 2)[letterhead]Why not sit down on receipt of this & sketch out two or three papers of these notes, and see how the thing would look? Could you make one or two Yukon region alone? If so, do it at once.Wasn't the "Alaska Trip" a timely hit, appearing on the very heels of the gold excitement? Heaven favors the virtuous.The Atlantic paper is good & I hear people speak of it. but dont let Page allure you away from your first love.See how we advertise you always as the author of "The Mountains of California".02323 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/26640/thumbnail.jpg Text glacier Alaska Yukon University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law: Scholarly Commons Yukon
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description	[2]Alaska, the adventure on the glacier when the buzzards were looking for you, the Salmon Stories and lots of serious and humorous experience, in short a sort of "Camp-fire talk," even bringing in your "John the Divine" story as sauce to scientific meat This would make a readable mixture of grave and gay. Your memory is chockful of interesting reminiscences of scentific men of [humor?] Dr. John Hall (!) & others which would be interesting and would relieve the seriousness of the purely scientific material. Will you just save the plums for the Century. And by the way have you anything interesting to say of the Klondike? If so, now is your time.Remember that I shall said for London August 21" and let me have a word about this before I leave--or if that isn't possible wirte Mr. Gilder afterward. I suppose you are with Prof. Sargent by this time If so remember me to him cordially.[3] (Muir 2)[letterhead]Why not sit down on receipt of this & sketch out two or three papers of these notes, and see how the thing would look? Could you make one or two Yukon region alone? If so, do it at once.Wasn't the "Alaska Trip" a timely hit, appearing on the very heels of the gold excitement? Heaven favors the virtuous.The Atlantic paper is good & I hear people speak of it. but dont let Page allure you away from your first love.See how we advertise you always as the author of "The Mountains of California".02323 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/26640/thumbnail.jpg
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title	Letter from R[obert] U[nderwood] J[ohnson] to John Muir, 1897 Aug 3.
title_short	Letter from R[obert] U[nderwood] J[ohnson] to John Muir, 1897 Aug 3.
title_full	Letter from R[obert] U[nderwood] J[ohnson] to John Muir, 1897 Aug 3.
title_fullStr	Letter from R[obert] U[nderwood] J[ohnson] to John Muir, 1897 Aug 3.
title_full_unstemmed	Letter from R[obert] U[nderwood] J[ohnson] to John Muir, 1897 Aug 3.
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Letter from R[obert] U[nderwood] J[ohnson] to John Muir, 1897 Aug 3.

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