Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Ezra and Jeanne] Carr
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Transcription
00675nor see you, yet you shared all of my highest pleasures as sauntered through the piney woods pausing countless times to absorb the blue glimpse of the lake all so heavenly clean – so terrestrial yet so openly spiritual. I wish my dear dear friends that you could share this divine day with me here. The soul of Indian summer is brooding this blue water & it enters ones being as nothing else does. Tahoe is surely not one but many as I curve around its heads & bays & look far out at its level sky fairly tinted & fading in pensive air I am reminded of all the mountain lakes I ever knew as if this were a kind of water heaven to wh[in margin: [something cut off]pers that your Berkley house was not likely to be built [something cut off] my mind to winter among Yosemite rocks again but if [something cut off]ed better winter with you say so in another letter directed to the Valley & I will come Ever yrs John Muir]
Location
Tahoe City
Date Original
[1873] Nov 3
Source
Original letter dimensions: 17 x 19.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir02_1219-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 1219
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 2
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
