Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Mrs. [Jeanne C.] Carr
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Yosemite July 29th [1870]My dear friend Mrs Carr I am very very blessed The valley is full of people but they do not annoy me I resolve in pathless places & in higher rocks than the world & his ribbony wife can reach, Had I not been blunted by hard work in the mill & crazed by Sabbath raids among the high places of this heaven I would have written you long since I have spent every Sabbath for the last two months in the spirit world screaming among the peaks & outside meadows like a negro Methodist in revival time, & every intervening clump of week days in trying to fix down & assimilate my shapeless harvests of revealed glory into the spirit & into the common earth of my existence, & I am rich rich beyond measure. not in rectangular blocks of sifted knowledge or in their sheets of beauty hung picture like about "the walls of memory" - but in unselected atmospheres[in margin: shortening my life, but I had a whole lifetime of enjoyment & I care but little for the arithmetical length of my days I can hardly realize that I have not yet seen you here. I thank you for sending me so many friends but I am wanting for you. I am going up the mountain soon to see your Lily garden at the top of Indian Canon. Let the pacific islands lie. My love to [Allie?] & all your boys & to the [illegible] Tell him that I have been tracing glaciers in all the [illegible] canons towards the summit. Ever [illegible] J Muir]
Location
Yosemite
Date Original
[1870] Jul 29
Source
Original letter dimensions: 24.4 x 39 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir02_0309-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0309
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
