Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Ratchel [ ? ]
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Transcription
Yosemite Sep' 13th 1870Dear friend Rat[illegible] I was really glad to hear from you, I enjoyed all your letter except- ing the first half page which was wasted upon apology & I don't think it strange at all that you should write to me because I know that yours is a nature that requires sympathy always, just as you require daily bread, & now that the old home at the lake is lost, & so many of your family scattered, & above all that your beloved mother the great earthly fountain of all unfailing sympathy for all your family has left you of course you are lonely & sad & the thirst of sympathy is a thousand fold increased, I assure you that you have my most cordial sympathy & I only grieve to think that I can do so little in your sorrow. I pray that our Father in heaven may sustain you all in your terrible bereavement & knit you all still closer in the bonds of both human & heavenly love. O it is all so sad [illegible] I can't think to write of anything else, I wish I could go to you. How near you all seem, I can scarce believe that I am not with you all in this night silence in my little cottage, Yet what thousands of mile are betwixt us with only a written sheet to go between
Location
Yosemite
Date Original
[1870 ?] Sep 13
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Resource Identifier
muir02_0341-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0341
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley. 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
