Creator

John Muir

Recipient

[Daniel Muir, Jr]

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but would you not like to see & hear the winter grandeur of Yosemite. You may be blessed, but I am glorious “ [over?] a the ils o life [victorious?]” I suppose that you will be delivered from the chattering skeletons & [professors on Jan 1s?] well if so think of your sweetheart & of me locked up in an house not made with hands whose walls are a mile in height & beautiful as those of the New Jerusalem. I trust that you will be very successful in digging in the grim mines of disease & live to cure many a colic & “[sair breest?]” [illegible] you well [illegible] [illegible] [most?] cordially John Muir

Location

Yosemite Valley

Date Original

1869 Dec 5

Source

Original letter dimensions unknown.

Resource Identifier

muir02_0191-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 02, Image 0191

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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 Huntington Library. 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

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