Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
[Kate N. Daggett?]
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Transcription
when my eyes were quenched just at the spring-dawn of summer when the voice of the bluebird began to appear mingled with the first flowerwords of Erigenia & Anemone - but though in that terrible darkness I died to light, I lived again, & God who is Light has led me tenderly from light to light to the shoreless ocean of rayless beamless Spirit Light that bathes these holy mountains [J Muir?][in margin: Light]717 Yosemite Valley Dec 30th 1872[Salutation torn off]: To Mrs: Kate N. Daggett I have just this minute for the first time lighted your elegant lamp & I send you again most cordial thanks for so precious a gift This is the first St Germain lamp I have seen & it is certainly the most beautiful of all Light fountains, its forms have been composed by a true artist - Its many curves blend into song with scarce a discordant tone. The trill around the base of the chimney is all that my eye-ear, dislikes. The massive finely moulded foundation glows like an ice-polished dome, & the grateful green of the shade is like that of high glacier lakes If among the multitude of00641
Location
Yosemite Valley
Date Original
1872 Dec 30
Source
Original letter dimensions: 21 x 26 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir02_1045-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 1045
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
