Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Jeanne C.Carr]
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Transcription
[4]I shall hope to hear from you soon, I will come down some of the valley canons occasionally for letters I am sorry that you are so ladin with University cares I think that you & the Doctor do more than your share Do you know anything about this Liebigs extract of meat I would like to carry a years pro- vision in the form of condensed bread or meat & I have been thinking perhaps all that I want is in the market00549 [1] [1871] Yosemite Aug 13th Dear friend, I was so stunned & dazed by your last that I have not been able to write anything I was sure that you were coming & you cannot come, & Mr King the artist left me the other day, & I am done with Hutchings & I am lonely Well it must be, wait, for although there is no common human reason why I should not see you & civilization in Oakland. I cannot escape from the powers of the mountains I shall tie some flour & a blanket behind my saddle & return to the Mono region & try to decide some questions that require undisturbed thought. Then I will stalk about over the summit slates of Dana & Gibbs & [illegible]ell reading new chapters of glacial manuscript &
Location
Yosemite
Date Original
[1871] Aug 13
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20 x 26 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir02_0491-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0491
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
