Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
[Jeanne C. Carr]
Preview
Transcription
[4]This is about the limit of what I feel capable of doing for the public - the moiling squirming fog breathing public. But for my few friends I can do more because they already know the mtn harmonies & can catch the tones I gather for them though written in a few harsh & gravelly sentences. Here you demand an account of work accomplished for either friends or public, well this is all. Next morning after reaching Turlock I sped afoot over the stubble fields & through miles of brown [hemzon?] & purple [Eriognum?] to Hopeton conscious of but little more than that the great town was behind & beneath me, & the mtns above & before me. Next day pushed on through the oaks & chaparral of the foothills - Next passed Coulterville & ascended the first great mtn step upon wh grows the Sugar Pine. Here I slackened my pace for I drank the spicy rosing wind & was at home, Never did pine trees seem so dear, How sweet was their breath & their song, & how grandly they [illegible]. [1] Yosemite Valley Dec 25th 72 Dear Mrs Carr, My memories of that far off country of Oakland are already dim as if worn by the waves of a hundred winters, but your self- sacrificing everlasting love burns clear to my eye as a naked sun For you my friend I could sing thanks & praise on a thousand pages but you know my gratitude better than any song can tell & I need not sound a single note The light of our friendship requires no adjustment -, like a planet, it will burn along its own path without our care, for all of the clean love that the world contains is divine, & circles around God as stars around their sun. You told me I ought to abandon letter writing, & I see plainly enough that you 00639
Location
Yosemite Valley
Date Original
1872 Dec 25
Source
Original letter dimensions: 21 x 26 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir02_1031-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 1031
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
