Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Annie Kennedy] Bidwell
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[2]stop wherever I chance to find myself in any place at all congenial. It seems strange to myself that I have not been back to Chico since my first delightful visit. I am sure I never left a place with more regret. - the vine-tangled creek – the noble oaks – the sunny flowery levels - & congenial friends. But you know as I told you I am pulled with ropes, driven with whips, & ridden with witches or guardian angels, so that I never can forecast my own movements. It is now more than ten years since I saw my mother & sisters. Hooker sent me a valuable book of geology, also two of his addresses before the Royal Society, of which for the last five years he was president. One of the pamphlets is on the dis= =tribution of the North American Flora, the other an address delivered at the [3]anniversary meeting of the Society, both very interesting. Have had letters lately from your sister & Gray. That was a very touching incident you relate on the occasion of your little friends visit to her mothers house. Joy & grief seems mysteriously blended in many lives. & the suffering that is in the world is hard to understand, whatever our knowledge of the ways of God may be, & however clearly & surely the wild flowers on the [ sea?] speak out his love.I have settled for the winter at 920 Valencia St. with my friend Mr Upham, of Payot Upham & Co., Booksellers – am comfortable but not very fruitful therefore reading more than writing.[on envelope: Mr John Muir. R. Feb. 17th 1879 copied by R. D. June – 1917.]
Location
920 Valencia St. San Francisco, [Calif]
Date Original
1879 Feb 17
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Resource Identifier
muir03_1004-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 03, Image 1004
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley. 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
