Creator
S.S. Forbes
Recipient
John Muir
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Copy to:- Mr. W. Cameron Forbes. BostoneMilton Hill, 29th April, 1872. My dear Mr. Muir: The box of specimens of wood has come safely through your friend. They are what I wanted - thank you very much. The bulbs were injured before I got them, but the seeds are now beginning to come up. I have also one sequoia tree up - it is about an inch high. Before it is 30 ft. through the trunk, there will be time for many changes in and on our little planet. I had read an account of the earthquake in the Yosemite. I should like to have felt it, but for safety would rather have been out of it. The accounts of the earthquakes and eruptions of Vesuvius are very interesting - that sort of commotion seems to be in various parts of the earth just now. I saw Prof. Gray a short time since. He spoke as if he was going to the Yosemite. It will be interesting to you to go about there with him. I also hope you will see Prof. Agassiz and party. I do not know how soon he will be there. Mr. Forbes has just started for Fayal, to bring my daughter home. We are having the driest of springs here, and no mountain streams near to draw from as they have in California. There is much in Mr. Emerson's writings to admire, yet in him I always feel the want of the genial sympathy with human everyday life - if he was musical perhaps he would have a touch of Robbie Burns, which united with his purity of thought would be fine -- but each has his own individuality, and each must work that out for himself as best he may. Very truly yours, S. S. ForbesI went to the observatory in Cambridge the other day and saw flames on the edge of the sun - they looked about so high but were about 10,000 miles high. [On folder Muir wrote, "Mrs. Forbes of Emerson's party in Yo."]
Location
Milton Hill, [Mass]
Date Original
1872 Apr 29
Source
Original letter dimensions: 15 x 23.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir02_0817-trans.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0817
Copyright Status
Copyright status unknown
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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.
Page Number
Page 3
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
