Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Jeanne C.] Carr
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Transcription
Perhaps I have not yet answered all of your last long pages, Here is a quotation from Tyndale con- cerning the nature & origin of his intense mountain enjoyments. He searches far & near for a theory of his delight in the mountains, going among the accidents of his own boyhood & those of his remotest fathers, but surely this must be all wrong & instead of groping away backwards among the various grades of grandfathers he should explore the most primary properties of man Perhaps we owe "the pleasurable emotions wh fine landscape makes in us" to a cause as radical as that wh makes a magnet pulse to the two poles I think that one of the [underlined: properties] of that compound wh we call man is that when exposed to the rays of mountain beauty it glows [underlined: with joy]. I don't know who of all my ancestry are to blame
Location
Yosemite
Date Original
[1872] Oct 14
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20 x 26 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir02_0971-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0971
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
