Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
[Jeanne C.] Carr
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Transcription
[2]all near together like eggs in a nest, three El Capitans & a couple of Tissiacks, Canons glorious with yellows & reds of Mtn Maple & aspen & honeysuckle & ash, & new [illegible]able [underlined: music unmeasurable] from strange waters & winds, & glaciers too flowing & grinding, alive as any on earth shall I pull you out some? Here is a clean white skinned glacier from the back of McClure with glossy emerald flesh & singing crystal blood, All bright & pure as a sky; yet handling mud & stone like a wavy [in margin: [narry?]] building [moraine?] like a plodding [illegible]bman. Here is a cascade 200 feet wide, half a mile long - [deleted:? glaveing this way & that; filled with bounce & dance & joyous hurrah, yet earnest as] [3]tempest, & singing like angels loose on a frolic from heaven, deleted?] ''-& here is [in margin: are] your cascades [deleted & more]; broad & flat like clouds & fringed like flowing hair, [in margin: with occasional] & falls [illegible] as pines, [deleted: & lakes like glowing eyes, & [how are visions too, & dreams,?] & a splendid set of ghosts, too many for ink & narrow paper.] I had not heard anything concerning LeContes Glacier lecture but he seems to have drawn all he knows of Sierra glaciers & new theories concerning them. So directly from [underlined: here] that I can- not think he will claim dis- covery etc; If he does I will not be made poorer. Prof [Kneeland?] Sec Boston Institute of Technology gathered some letters I sent to Runkle & that Tribune letter & hashed them
Location
Yosemite Valley
Date Original
1872 Oct 8
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 25.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir02_0943-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0943
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
