Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Sarah [Muir Galloway]
Preview
Transcription
[3]Love to all your happy family & to thee & David. The circumstances of my life since I last bade you farewell have wrought many changes in me, but my love for you all has only grown greater from year to year, & whatsoever befals I shall ever be yrs affectionately John Muir ———— [2]perhaps I should have waited until the book was in print, for it is not absolutely certain that it will be accepted by the publishing houses. It has first to be submitted to the tasling critics but as everything in the way of magazine & newspaper articles that the old pen has ever traced has been accepted & paid for I reasonably hope I shall have no difficultly in obtaining a publisher. The manuscript has just been sent to New York & will be reported on in a few weeks. I leave for the mountains of Utah [deleted: in a f] today. The frayed upper end of the pen was produced by nervous gnawing when some interruption in my logic or rhetoric occurred from stupidity or weariness. I g[illegible]d the upper end to send the thoughts below & out at the other
Location
San Francisco, [Calif]
Date Original
1877 Apr 23
Source
Original letter dimensions: 21 x 27 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir03_0527-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 03, Image 0527
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 2
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
