Creator
P. C. Renfrew
Recipient
John Muir
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[4]literally glorious in May and June with rhododendron and other flowering shrubs. Your second question is have you been on the Three Sisters. Yes on the centre & north – the former on July 28th the latter on Sept. 10th 1875. 3d How many glaciers are there on these flanks. Yo my position knowledge these are three acive ones each sending its stream of “pulp” (they would say in N[illegible] to the lowlands east and west. I do not say there are not other active ones but these I have visited; the largest four times. Now, allow me to ask you the cost of an aneroid faronetes suitable to [in margin: 366] take altitudes, gier size in diameter inclus with piece. Don’t forget that I promised you any data I possessed [underlined: if you came here]. Come. Respectfully & Truly P.C. Renfrew 00836 [1] McKenzie Bridge Oregon Feb 26th 1879Mr. John Muir Dear Sir, There are occasions in my life as there must be in that of every man “who, in the love of nature holds communion with her—“ that may be called epochs; when, overawed by her majesty I am lifted out of myself and individuality with all that encumbers it is for the moment extinguished. This I just experienced on the deck of a Pacific Steamship witnessing sunrise on a perfectly waveless sea, Next on viewing from above, a fog=filled valley of the southern Sierra at Sunrise, again, on my first sweeping view of the Yosemite Valley and last when standing on the north western glacier of the volcanos known as the “Three Sisters”.
Location
McKenzie Bridge, Oregon
Date Original
1879 Feb 26
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20 x 25.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir03_1012-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 03, Image 1012
Copyright Status
Copyright status unknown
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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.
Page Number
Page 1
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
