Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Emily [O. Pelton]
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Transcription
ans Jan 1419 Taylor St. S F. 9th or so. Dec 30th 77 [circled: ‘77]My dear runaway sister Emily.I have just chanced to learn your return to the Yaba hills through McChesney. Since you left here on your visit to the old East you have not sent me a single word, at least I have not received one from you. What has your poor mountaineer brother done to deserve such blank desertion. come now. What is my short coming or over coming that you leave me thus silently to the bears, & snow-storms, & wild sheep? What kind of sisterness is this? Ive been near drowning in the Sacramento, & freezing in the Kings River Canon, & only a month ago scrambled three days without food among the dizz cliffs & white waters of the High Sierra but never a word from your Kind heart ….. Well Ill say no more until you break silence. I would have written to Mrs Knox for information but I did not care to let her know how [ naughty?] you had been & on going East your did not give me any address. I have spent last summer in regular course like all the rest, traveling the solitudes in search of wild truth. Have been at Shasta, Fall River, Feather River, Yosemite, Los Angeles, Santa Cruz etc
Location
1419 Taylor St. S[an] F[rancisco]
Date Original
1877 Dec 30
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Resource Identifier
muir03_0659-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 03, Image 0659
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 1
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
