Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Charlotte H.] Kellogg
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Transcription
2exhausting work.No doubt you have food enough but too much work and care with too little rest. Pray be kind and pitiful to yourself but watch Jean's gums and lance them if necessary.I've been this side the continent two months, have done lots of National Park work at Washington and book work here and in Boston wildly interrupted by endless dinners, lionizing etc. Am now trying to hide in Prof Osborn's log writing den in a hickory grove to finish a Yosemite book before leaving for S. America. Perhaps I told you that Yale wished to give me a degree, and as it was in great part for saving Gods parks I ventured to accept hoping this action might help to make public opinion for Yosemites3I went to New Haven on the morning of June 20th and was received and entertained with wonderful cordiality & taken to the ball game in the afternoon. Though at first a little nervous on account of the approaching degree ceremony, I quickly caught the glow of the Yale enthusiasm. Never before have I seen or heard anything just like it. The many alumni classes assembled from all the country were clad in wildly colored uniforms, and the way they capered and danced, sang and yelled, wheeled and doubled quadrupled octupled their flying ranks is utterly indescribable Autumn leaves in whirlwinds are staid and decorous in comparison.
Location
New York
Date Original
1911 Jun 27
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Resource Identifier
muir20_0424-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 20, Image 0424
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 2
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
