Creator
Abba G. Woolson
Recipient
John Muir
Preview
Transcription
[4]Well, you will not be left to their companionship long. A few weeks will bring to your haunts the usual number of [illegible] resolved upon "doing" the Valley; and before their stupid your Nevada will fling down her laces, and in their stupid [eat?] Yo Semite will [illegible] her [illegible], and the Vernal will print her wavering luminous rainbows at their feet. But, though they shall tread in the chamber of the gods, the gods shall keep the full glories of their [inner?] c[illegible] sacred from their gaze. Let us know what further book we can send you; and whenever you are too [illegible] to write f[illegible] sha[illegible]deis for the p[illegible] [illegible] us a few lines to let us know how it fares with you. Very Truly Your Friend. Abba G. Molson. [in margin: 67] 00653 [1] Boston [A Chauncy St.?] Mch. 23./73.Dear Mr. Muir, Although you have not deigned to take any notice of a long letter which I dispatched to you last Fall, I am deposed to be magnauim out and forgiving toward one who has to many noble and engrossing objects to occupy his thoughts. I am sure that if I went to abide under the shadow of El Capitan, with the South Dome and Yo Semite Fall before my eyes, all sounds from the outer world which might creep over the rocky lo[illegible] that enclosed me would seem too far-away and feeble to demand any immediate attention. It is then that I explain your silence, and so long as you will write to the world at large such refreshing letter as that we read the other evening in our own "Boston Lanscript" I will postpone any private and individual [claims?] which I might have, and be content with my share of the general communication.
Location
Boston
Date Original
1873 Mar 23
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 25 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir02_1091-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 1091
Copyright Status
Copyright status unknown
Copyright Statement
Some letters written to John Muir may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
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.
Page Number
Page 1
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
