Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
Sarah & David Galloway
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Transcription
[1][letterhead:] Pen Sentinel Hotel, A. C. BLACK, Proprietor. Yo Semite Valley, April 25 1872Dear brother & sister Sarah & David Galloway, Your well filled envelope reached our valley this morning. I have read all the letters little & great with a relish that you cannot well appreciate, Nothing connected with your life can be trivial or uninteresting to me. I wish you would write oftener, The childrens letters are as George says of the peacocks "Superb" Celias Scripture is an epistolary wonder both in composition & execution If must be a deep & constant delight to you that they all are developing so very remarkably well. I will write them in answer noI have a log cabin half made up the the valley in a clump of cornus bushes on the river bank00590 [4]although all were new a few mos ago. I wish you or Maggie would knit me a pair strong ones & send by mail They would cost little postage but would save my feet this summer. Mtn' walking is severe on feet. I never petted snakes but they occasionally visited mw. My cabin was over & under & inter grown with ferns, & little green tree frogs were abundant amond them & about the edge of the creek that ran along the edge of the floor. I have not seen my winter letters in the Tribune. Please send me copies of each as you meet & if need be I will return them. The glacier article was in the 5th Dec' issue, not the 9th) I may write a few more sut will likely be busy in the mtns after the snow melts I shall hope to see you all here some day.Hearty thanks David for your care of the mud pond dear to Nature & to me.
Location
New Sentinel Hotel Yo Semite Valley
Date Original
1872 Apr 25
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 25.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir02_0793-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0793
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
