Creator

[John Muir]

Recipient

Mrs. [Jeanne C.] Carr

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[4]of Nov 19th is received directed to the "Tuolumne River etc" "You are glad that I am kindly disposed towards South America but a year is a long time, etc" but to me a Yosemite year is a very little measure of time or rather a measureless & formless mas of time which can in no manner be geomet- rically or Arithmetically delt with but Mrs Carr, why do you wish to cut me from California & graft me among the groves of the p[illegible]. Please write the reason This Pacific sunshine is hard to leave. If souls are allowed to go a rapping & visiting where they please I think that unbodied I will be found wallowing in California light If the bulbs were lost I will procure some more for you if you do not send me up the Amazon before next fall00525[1] Near La Grange Cala Dec 22d [1870]Dear Mrs Carr, It is so long since I have heard from you that I begin to think you have sent a letter to Yosemite. I am feeling lonely again & require a word from you. Some time ago Mr Hutchings wrote me saying that he would re- quire my shingle cabin for his sister & so I am homeless again. I expected to pass the winter there writing sketching etc & in making exploratory raids back over the mountains in the snow but Mr Hutchings jumping my nest after expressly promising to keep it for me, has broken my pleasant lot of plans. & I am at work making new ones. Were it not that mr Hutchings

Location

Near La Grange Cala

Date Original

[1870] Dec 22

Source

Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 25.5 cm.

Resource Identifier

muir02_0355-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 02, Image 0355

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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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

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