Creator
Joanna [Muir]
Recipient
John Muir
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Transcription
[2]But it is all past now, your life has been enriched, and you are still our own good kind, happy brother John, so it is all right. I can readily see how with God’s great glorious book of nature, which has become so intelligible to you, continually spread out before you and continually yielding you some grand, fresh truth, that religious denominationalism with all it comes in its train, must seem insignificant and useless; any yet, you naughty, bad boys! What could the world in general do without churches and Sunday schools?[3]you know that they who are not pure in heart cannot see God in his works! They see only sheep pastures and firewood, and unless the truths of God be shouted into their ears will never know Him at all until perhaps when they have slunk away into the Spirit world there to find that they have never learned to live. So you must be good and not talk like that anymore. I do hope to spend more time under the blue sky than I have ever yet done and as you say — maybe my eyes may yet feast on some of the scenes which you
Location
Portage, [Wisc]
Date Original
1880 Feb 12
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 25.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir04_0033-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 04, Image 0033
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
