Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
[Jeanne C. Carr]
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Transcription
00380 [Oct 1866] Osgood & Smith Iapolis [11?] #[illegible]I have not before sent these feelings and thoughts to anybody, but I know that I am speaking to one who by long & deep communion with Nature understands them, and can tell me what is true, or false and unworthy in my experiences, The ease with with with which you have read my mind from hints taken from letters to my child friends gives me confidence to write - Thank you for the compliment of the great picture frame - that is at least one invention that I should not have discovered - -but the picture is but an ins[illegible] -an animal cola, I have stood by a Majestic pine witnessing its high branches waving "in sign of worship", or in converse with the spirit of the storms of autumn, till I forgot my very existence, and thought
Location
Osgood & Smith, Indianapolis [Ind.]
Date Original
[1866 Oct]
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.0 x 12.5 cm
Resource Identifier
muir01_0880-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 01, Image 0880
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 1
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
