Creator
W[illiam] P. Gibbons
Recipient
John Muir
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[2]in the eyes of the family, beside the poetical & aesthetic side of the display. Humph! talk of glaciers – their magnificence – sublimity – of their broad fields of [illegible] splendor: — they are but skeletons dressed up in gorgeous apparal, when compared with the living ever growing beauty & luxious flavor of nature’s parlor gardens! The Lord only knows what would have become of the human race, if Eve had led her fellow into a vineyard instead of a crab apple orchard. It is humiliating to reflect that such an ass as Oscar Wilde should have stirred up with his ass-the-ticism the wealth & beauty of the land to the time of 50.000 dollr. while the world has no honors to confer on the true nobleness of nature! But there’s a good time coming, some day or other.[3]Kellogg is still nosing over his [illegible] drawings. The only recreation he takes is pipe smoking. [illegible] has his house in Alameda nearly completed, so that the family is fairly anchored on our side of the bay. The whole family send their kindest regards to yourself & wife. By the way, I’ve some notion of buying 5 or 10 acres & turning horticulturalist. I have a parcel of peach, almond, plum & fig trees, & some grape vines, suffuiently large to put out in orchard shape, & I begin to look forward to the time when it will be prudent to give up professional toil & settle down in the quite current of declining life. I wish you would write
Location
Alameda, [Calif]
Date Original
1883 Nov 4
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 25 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir04_1126-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 04, Image 1126
Copyright Status
Copyright status unknown
Copyright Statement
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.
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 2
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
