Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Jeanne C.] Carr
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Transcription
[Letterhead:] Pen Sentinel Hotel, A. C. BLACK, Proprietor. Yo Semite Valley, May 31 1872Dear Mrs Carr. Yours announcing the Joaquin & the Doggetts & more is here I care not when you come so that you come calm & timeful. I will try to compel myself down to you in August but these years & ages among snows & rocks have made me far more unfit for the usages of civilization than you can appreciate. My serve strings shrunk at the prospect even at this distance, But if by driving to that slimey town sea bottom I can touch Huxley & Tyndall & mount again with you to calm months in the Sierras I will draw a long breath & splash into your fearful muds I would rather have you in Sep & Oct than at any other time but a few weeks of this white water would be very glorious. Merrill Moores who was with me in Wis and at your Madison home will be here soon to spend a good big block of a while with me, why cant you let Allie join him?[in margin: Tell Kellogg that there is [one?] here who will be ready to welcome him in all kinds of times & weathers, When he comes here, he will come to his own, "His are the mtns & the valleys his"]
Location
Yosemite Valley
Date Original
1872 May 31
Source
Original letter dimensions: 25.5 x 21 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir02_0829-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0829
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
