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[Four Letters to Emerson.]
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Kimes Entry Number
388
Original Date
1-1-1939
Publication
In Rusk, Ralph L., ed., The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Page/Column
pp. 154-157, 202-204
Recommended Citation
New York and London: Columbia University Press, v. VI, "[Four Letters to Emerson.]" (1939). John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986). 456.
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William and Maymie Kimes Annotation
These letters reveal Muir's ardent enthusiasm for the Yosemite Sierra as well as his great admiration for Emerson. Each letter contains a lively and persuasive invitation to "Come to our mountain fountains�." In his first letter, delivered to Emerson at the hotel in Yosemite Valley, Muir writes: "I invite you to join me in a months worship with Nature in the high temples of the great Sierra Crown beyond our holy Yosemite. It will cost you nothing save the time & very little of that for you will be mostly in Eternity." Three additional letters are mentioned but not printed.