Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[James] Cross
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[illegible] 1981 Yosemite Valley Dec 24th 71Dear Cross. I have just written a line to Maxwell & of course you are in lively remember- ance as one third of the pleasant [illegible] of the Hoffman excursion. I suppose that you are now bravely housed in Merrie England, & in looking back upon the many broad fields of terrestrial grandeur & beauty, you behold our Yosemite sharply defined, peerless & companionless, would that you might see our mountains now, they are glorious with the generous snows of four days storm, every dome & spire, & every nitch & tablet, has its share of the pure jewels of winter storm. Since you were here I have rambled the upper mtns incessantly untill driven down by deep snows, I am engaged in the study of the ancient glacial system of this region, & am no longer bound to Hutchings or his mill, I will likely go on with my explorations with reference to the dead Yosemite ice rivers for several years & may write a mono- gram for the Boston Academy of Sciences. I was in the great Tuolumne canon a short time ago of wh Hetch Hetchy valley forms a part the Hetch Hetchy occupies exactly the same pos- ition upon the Tuolumne, that the Yosemite does upon the Merced, & both vallies were formed at the same period & by the same forces, & of course
Location
Yosemite Valley
Date Original
1871 Dec 4
Source
Original letter dimensions: 25.5 x 20 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir02_0601-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0601
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
