Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
Mrs.[Jeanne C.] Carr
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[3]spiced with dust of garnets & zircons & many a nameless gem, & when food was gathered for the forests & all their elected life; when every rock form was finished, every mon- ument raised, the willing messengers unwearied unwasted heard Gods well done from heaven calling them back to their homes in the sky - January 8th 72.Dear friend. We are gloriously snowbound. One storm has filled half of last month, & it is snowing again would that you could behold its beauty I half expect another glacial period, but I will not say anything about ice untill you become wiser but I send you a cascade jubilee wh you will relish more than anybody else, I have tried to put it in form for publication, & if you can rasp off the rougher angles & wedge in a few slippery words between bad splices perhaps it may be sufficiently civilized for Overland or Atlantic but I always felt a chill come over my fingers when a calm place in the storm allowed me to think of it. Also I have been sorry for one of our bears & I think you will sympathize with me. At least I confide my dead friends to your keeping & you may print what you like Heavens! If you only had been here in the flood
Location
Yosemite
Date Original
[1871] Dec 11
Source
Original letter dimensions: 25.5 x 39.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir02_0611-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0611
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 3
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
