Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Jeanne C.] Carr
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[in margin: 00654] Oftentimes when I am free in the wilds, I discover some rare beauty in lake or c[illegible] or mountain form, & instantly seek to sketch it with my pencil but the drawing is always enormously unlike the reality, So also in word sketches of the same beauties that are So living so loving So filled with warm God there is the same infinite short-coming, My few hard words make but a skeleton fleshless heartless & when you read [deleted: them], the dead bony words rattle in ones teeth, Yet I will not the less endeavor to do my poor best, believing that even these dead bone heaps called articles will occasionally contain hints to some living souls who know how to find them, I have not rec'd Dr Stebbins letter give him & all my friends love from me I sent Harry Edwards the butterflies I had lost. Did he get them Farewell dear dear Spiritual Mother. Heaven repay your everlasting love John Muir
Location
Yosemite Valley
Date Original
[1873] Mar 30
Source
Original letter dimensions: 21 x 13 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir02_1097-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 1097
Copyright Status
Copyrighted
Copyright Statement
The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
Owning Institution
University of the Pacific Library Holt-Atherton Special Collections. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Copyright Holder
Muir-Hanna Trust
Copyright Date
1984
Page Number
Page 2
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
