Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Sarah [Muir Galloway]
Preview
Transcription
[in margin: I climbed to the high summits the other day among great sloping banks of perpetual snow. The Sierra in this vicinity reaches its highest altitudes. When we move to Big Meadows I will be able from some of the peaks to look over into Nevada. [illegible] a fine view of Mono Lake. We sleep under the open sky upon spruce branches] At Camp in Spruce Grove near upper end of Yo Semite two miles from the north wall, Aug' 1st 69 -Dear Sister Sarah Just think of the blessedness of my lot - have been camped here right in the midst of Yo Semite rocks & waters for fifteen days, with nearly all of everyday to myself to climb, sketch, write, meditate, & botanize. My foot has pressed no floor but that of the mountains for many a day I am far from the ways & pursuits of man I seldom even hear the bleating of our 2500 sheep - the manifold overwhelming sublimities of the Sierra is all in all. I am with Nature in the grandest most divine of all her earthly dwellings places I had a letter from Prof Butler of Madison last month saying that he was about to start for California by railroad in Company with his son Henry & a man of war by the name & title of General Alvord & requesting are to join the company in visiting Yo Sem' - The Big Trees etc. I may be able to meet him in the Valley & I mean to go down into the Valley tomorrow & seize this opportunity of sending you a line We mean to move our sheep in a few days twelve miles higher among the summits on the South fork of the Tuolumne We will likely reach the plains & the open world again about Oct 1st A few months will Call upon me to decide to what portion of Gods glorious star I will next turn. The sweets of home - the
Location
…upper end of Yosemite two miles from…north…
Date Original
1869 Aug 1
Source
Original letter dimensions: 31.5 x 19.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir02_0121-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0121
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 1
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
