Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Mrs. [James Davie] Butler
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Transcription
two long cold years of isolation, a fri[end?] was really near in the flesh & that my ey[es?] would be blessed that very day with lig[ht?] from a familiar face, & I started from the house in pursuit. I soon found Gen' Al[vord?] & one of the guides who informed me that Pr[of'?] Butler & [illegible] P Jones had started for the top mount Broderick. I waylaid him at a [illegible] in the trail where he had to pass, near the Nevada rapids. I asked anxiously for Henry but was told that he was not in [the?] valley. Towards evening he came to light am[id?] the rocks half [wet?] groping his way among broken granite & bushes, sleeves rolled up res[illegible] open-hat dangling behind his back etc, on see[ing?] me approach he sat down to wipe the per[prer?] ation from his brow & neck, & enquired the way down the rapids. I showed him the pa[illegible] which was marked with little piles of rock but he did not recognize me. When I [was?] directly in front of him & asked him if he did not know me. He said he thought not but soon changed his mind. He was weary with his day of hard climbing but was very cheerful nevertheless, & on the way to [the?] hotel gleaned delightful handfuls [for?] me from the Poets, & remarked upon the surpassing glories of Yo Semite I was sorry to learn that he [was?] going to leave the Valley in the morning in scandalous haste urged by that man y[illegible] was who is governed like a machine by [military?] c[illegible]. [When he left
Location
Headwaters of the Tuolumne near Castlepeak
Date Original
1869 Aug
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Resource Identifier
muir02_0129-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0129
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
Wisconsin Historical Society. 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
