Creator

[John Muir]

Recipient

[Jeanne C.] Carr

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Yosemite Valley Apr 13th 1873Dear Mrs Carr, Indian Tom goes out the valley tomorrow, with this I send you “Hetch Hetchy” Last year I wrote a description of H Hetchy & sent it to Prof Runkle Not having heard of it since I thought it lost in some waste basket, but today I received a Boston letter stating that a Hetch H from my pen appeared in the Boston Transcript of about March 12, 73 wh may possibly be the article in question. If so this present H H will be found to contain a page or two of the same, but this is about three times as large, & all rewritten etc. That Tuolumne song of fine Cantos (“Nature loves the [in margin: (“fire] number may perhaps be better out. If

Location

Yosemite Valley

Date Original

1873 Apr 13

Source

Original letter dimensions: 21 x 13 cm.

Resource Identifier

muir02_1115-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 02, Image 1115

Copyright Statement

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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 1

Keywords

John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle

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