Creator
G[eorge] W. Cable
Recipient
John Muir
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and as I look across the white, crusted waste I see such mellowness of yellow sunlight and long blue and purple shadows that I want some adequate manly partnership to help me reap the rapture of such beauty. In one place a stretch of yellow grass standing above the snow or blown clear of it glows golden in the slant light. The heavens are blue as my love's eyes and the [illegible] are black lace against their infinite distance. Last night I walked across the frozen white under a moonlight and starlight that made the way seem through the wastes of a stellar [illegible] and not along the surface of one poor planet. Write and tell me, I pray you, what these big brothers of yours, the mountains, have been saying to you of late. It will compensate in part, but only in part, for the absence of your spoken words.Yours truly G.W. Cable01749
Location
Northampton, Mass.
Date Original
1893 Dec 18
Source
Original letter dimensions: 21.5 x 14 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir07_1429-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 07, Image 1429
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
