Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Ralph Waldo] Emerson
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wh flowed at right angles to those later & larger ones of the summits Now there is a very deep canon on the left of Yosemite falls wh has compelled me to think to it every day for more than a year & I could not account for its formation in any other way than by supposing the existence of a glacier in the basin above as one of the conditions Last Sabbath the big truth came to the birth. I ran out of the valley by Indian Canon, & round to the top of the falls - said my prayers in the irised spray & started for the upper end of the basin ten or twelve miles distant hoping somewhere to discover positive evidence of my missing glacier in the higher deeper portions of its channel where it would linger longest, or where it had been compelled to [6]wedge through some narrow place thus hardening & more deeply grooving the granite wh then would not be so susceptible of disintegration Well I had not gone four miles ere I found all I had so long sought & you might have heard a shout in concord This glacier was about 12 ms' in length by about 6 in breath, Of the depth I have as yet no data. Its course was nearly at right angles to the summit glaciers & perhaps it was not born quite so early as they. & I am sure that it died long before they were driven from the canons of the Tenaya & Nevada streams. I have just finished a first reading of your [Society?] & Solitude. The poems I have head several times. I have [7]
Location
Yosemite
Date Original
[1871] Jul 6
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Resource Identifier
muir02_0477-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0477
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
The Houghton Library, Harvard University. 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 4
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
