Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
[Kate N. Daggett?]
Preview
Transcription
articles that now enter a human home there be one that deserves to be crowned with beauty above [words cut out - from manuscript]: everything else it is the fountain of Light. The poet is the only work- man capable of making a candle- stick. It is delightful to observe how steadily Godborn beauty is flowing into all the handiwork of man. Nature is insinuating herself into every pore of humanity & it is oozing out in forms that are constantly becoming less & less impure, & those forms of purer & more direct Godfulness are coming not only from the study cells of the painter & architect & art poets in general recognized as such, but they are flowing from the workshop - from the foundry & the forge I know little of men, seeing them only afar off & in the lump, but standingas I now do on the mountain side & contemplating the various hives of industry among civilizations old & new, all looming on my vision, dim in the great sea- divided distances, I have this one big well defined faith for humanity as a workman, that the time is coming when every "article of manufacture" will be as purely a work of God as are these mountains & pine trees & bonnie looking flowers - I only meant to say you another warm thank-you, but the fresh dewy beauty of your sunrise lamp conjured & loosened these thoughts & sent them down to my page, as rain & frost loosen & send down trains of rattling rough angled rocks to Yosemite meadows I suppose our dear Mrs Carr has told you of the eclipse in my life, years ago
Location
Yosemite Valley
Date Original
1872 Dec 30
Source
Original letter dimensions: 21 x 26 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir02_1047-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 1047
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
