I'll check the San Francisco PL History Room tomorrow (Thurs), which I'm visiting anyway. Long shot, but they may have something by/about Muir that would say.
Does MT Day by Day have anything?
Richard Reineccius, SF/Oakland
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>Subject: MT & John Muir
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>Reading up on John Muir, a truly wild-eyed prophet, and getting ready for
>some time in Yosemite...
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>I saw this post about Robert Underwood Johnson, who became editor of the
>Century, and published many essays by Muir. One site says "Johnson's
>autobiography, *Remembered Yesterdays*, tells of his friends and
>acquaintances, including Theodore Roosevelt, John Burroughs, Nikola Tesla,
>Mark Twain, and Rudyard Kipling, to all of whom he introduced John Muir."
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>Just wondering: Can anyone confirm that MT met Muir? Does anyone know if
>there are any good accounts of the meeting? Anything else: what he
>thought of Muir, did he read Muir??
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