Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Emily [O. Pelton]
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Transcription
all the best of a persons life out but doubtless you have had much to enjoy from the beautiful plains & lakes & mountains that you have passed. Many say that the "plains" are monotonous deserts but I do not think that you would see them so, Last year I was over the summit to Mono lake - the whole country about there is generally described as a dreary forbidding waste Yet I never beheld a place where beauty was written in plainer characters or where the tender fostering hand of the Great Gardener was more directly visible You have not come at the most beautiful time of year The plains of the Sacramento will be crisp & dead ere this but if you are here in April you will see a sheet of plant gold unrivalled in the world
Location
Yosemite Valley
Date Original
1870 May 15
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Resource Identifier
muir02_0271-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0271
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
Wisconsin Historical Society. 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
