Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Dav[id Muir]
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that he would find ballast in your town of some sabbath- School or missionary kind that would save him from any violent crisis like the present. That thick matted sod of Bristol orphans, wh is a sort of necess- ary evil, induced by other evils, is all right enough for Muller in England but all wrong for Muir in America The lives of Anna & Joanna accustomed to free wild Nature of our woods if transplanted to artificial fields & dingy towns of England would wilt & shrivel to mere husks, even if they were not to make their life work amid those pinched, & blinking orphans Father in his present feeble- minded condition is sick & requires the most considerate treatment from all who haveaccess to his thoughts, this moral disease is by no means contemptible for it is only those who are endowed with poetic & enthusiastic brains that are subject to it Most people who are born into the world remain babies all their lives, their development bring arrested like sundried seeds Father is a magnificent baby who instead of dozing contentedly like most of his neighbors suffers growing pains that are ready to usher in the dawn of a higher life But to come to our work can you not induce father to engage in some tract or mission or Sabbath school enterprise that will satisfy his demands for bodily & spiritual exercise Can you not find him some
Location
Yosemite Valley
Date Original
1873 Mar 1
Source
Original letter dimensions: 21 x 26 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir02_1079-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 1079
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
