Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
Mary [Muir Hand]
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Transcription
[2]handful of heads in the sturdier vase does not allow them to show to good advantabe what they are but the loose buds scattered at the foot of the vase are very fine. I would like to see you try a single flower & leaf growing in the water. thought from the size of the leaves a large sheet would be requiredI [illegible] the frost is already dividing you into clear quarters around the devilish iron stoves. I often marveled that anyone could be at all well breathing the roasted burned atmosphere of your winter homes. You are awake to the evils of drinking alcohol but not at all to the eavils of drinking burned foul air[3]which every year in our climate kills more than dram drinking strange that with so many schools & churches & great show of knowledge concerning both earth & heavens we should yet be as ignorant of so simple a matter as keeping warm in cold weather as a lot of sneezing shivering monkeys. If you are going to continue the profession of Christianity & preaching reforms of drinking etc then for conscience sake begin the business of casting out devils - those iron stoves. [illegible] [stricken word] the business out of their own eye- pull out the end of your house & build a fireplace. This is Sunday & this is a much needed sermon
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1886 Dec 5
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Resource Identifier
muir05_0726-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 05, Image 0726
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
John Muir National Historic Site. 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
