Letter from John Muir to [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1899 Oct 8.
Martinez, Oct 8, 1899My dear Johnson--Your letter of Sep. 21 came just a few days before Mr & Mrs Thompson & I enjoyed their visit very much because they have seen something. I still regret your not being on the Harriman trip. It was in every way just the thing for you-more so than for anyon...
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ftunivpacificmsl:oai:scholarlycommons.pacific.edu:muir-correspondence-3455 2023-10-01T03:56:07+02:00 Letter from John Muir to [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1899 Oct 8. Muir, John 1899-10-08T08:00:00Z application/pdf https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2456 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/muir-correspondence/article/3455/viewcontent/muir10_1015_trans.pdf eng eng Scholarly Commons https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2456 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/muir-correspondence/article/3455/viewcontent/muir10_1015_trans.pdf The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission to publish or exhibit them, see http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Fees-and-Forms-.html John Muir Correspondence (PDFs) Environmentalist naturalist travel conservation national parks John Muir history correspondence letters text 1899 ftunivpacificmsl 2023-09-02T22:31:44Z Martinez, Oct 8, 1899My dear Johnson--Your letter of Sep. 21 came just a few days before Mr & Mrs Thompson & I enjoyed their visit very much because they have seen something. I still regret your not being on the Harriman trip. It was in every way just the thing for you-more so than for anyone on board. Still I'm glad you passed safely through the hot killing days of N. Y. with your family on Long Island.I am pegging away at the park & forest Reservations which I hope to get off my hands before the close of the year--Then I'm going to write the Yosemite book I promised you. After which I mean to take up Alaska--first an account of my trip across the Muir Glacier that I promised you then a little book for Houghton Mifflin.By the way a great many admirers of the dog story are urging me to have it brought out as a New Year's book for children. What do you think of the plan. If the Century Company cares to publish it I ll review it & send some illustrations--I'm glad to hear Burroughs is going to give you his sparrow & impression of the N. wilderness--I cant help thinking they would have been better had he made the trip 35 or 40 yrs. ago. Still they will be novel & readable even at this late sundownn date-He made us lots of fun on the trip--growled good naturedly all the way repeating over & over again J. B. what a fool you are coming on this blank frost business. He was subject to seasickness & when he got to Dutch Harbor Onalaska propased to stay there until we returned from the Behring Sea trip. I urged him to come on & make the whole round icy excursion07194 But as luck would have it the weather was stormy & while lying in his bunk half--sick he made rhymes to be posted in the smoking room-reflecting awful on me& Behring Sea. Thus"Snapping snarling Behring Sea,Hissing spitting as we flee-Spiteful Sea!Where thou art's no clime for me;Climbing hills that sink & fleeIn to vales that bitterness be;Treacherous Sea!Break thy fang for all of me--Shallow, foaming Behring ... Text glacier Alaska University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law: Scholarly Commons Fang ENVELOPE(167.217,167.217,-77.483,-77.483) Underwood ENVELOPE(49.350,49.350,-68.133,-68.133) |
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Martinez, Oct 8, 1899My dear Johnson--Your letter of Sep. 21 came just a few days before Mr & Mrs Thompson & I enjoyed their visit very much because they have seen something. I still regret your not being on the Harriman trip. It was in every way just the thing for you-more so than for anyone on board. Still I'm glad you passed safely through the hot killing days of N. Y. with your family on Long Island.I am pegging away at the park & forest Reservations which I hope to get off my hands before the close of the year--Then I'm going to write the Yosemite book I promised you. After which I mean to take up Alaska--first an account of my trip across the Muir Glacier that I promised you then a little book for Houghton Mifflin.By the way a great many admirers of the dog story are urging me to have it brought out as a New Year's book for children. What do you think of the plan. If the Century Company cares to publish it I ll review it & send some illustrations--I'm glad to hear Burroughs is going to give you his sparrow & impression of the N. wilderness--I cant help thinking they would have been better had he made the trip 35 or 40 yrs. ago. Still they will be novel & readable even at this late sundownn date-He made us lots of fun on the trip--growled good naturedly all the way repeating over & over again J. B. what a fool you are coming on this blank frost business. He was subject to seasickness & when he got to Dutch Harbor Onalaska propased to stay there until we returned from the Behring Sea trip. I urged him to come on & make the whole round icy excursion07194 But as luck would have it the weather was stormy & while lying in his bunk half--sick he made rhymes to be posted in the smoking room-reflecting awful on me& Behring Sea. Thus"Snapping snarling Behring Sea,Hissing spitting as we flee-Spiteful Sea!Where thou art's no clime for me;Climbing hills that sink & fleeIn to vales that bitterness be;Treacherous Sea!Break thy fang for all of me--Shallow, foaming Behring ... |
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