Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Asa] Gray
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Transcription
must be at least 2 inches dia’ – the [illegible] [illegible[ are finely & sharply dissected. Mrs Carr, I find has carried off all the specimens I brought down to camp, & also all of the seed!!. I will write her to send you one. I will gather your seeds, Abis [illegible] & Torreya — Had a glorious six weeks of free mountainanity with Carr & Kellogg they botanizing, I glacerizing Had one lovely scramble of fourteen days among the black jagged peaks at the head of the Merced Tuolumne & San Joaquin Rivers, — bagged thirty four active glaciers, Dr Kellog & I are about to set out for the region about the heads of the South Fork of the San Joaquin & Kings & Kern Rivers. I pushing back among the glaciers that I know are there, K botanizing on lower ground we separating a week or so at a time . From head of Kern R we will cross over to Owens River Valley thence alongnorth past Mono to Lake Tahoe & yet northward untill snow falls. Thanks for biography of Sullivant, Farewell I hear the mtns calling. Ever cordially yrs John Muir[in margin: FOR REFERENCE USE ONLY Reproduced from the original in The Yale University Library Permission necessary for reproduction or publication]
Location
Yosemite Valley
Date Original
1873 Sep 10
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Resource Identifier
muir02_1181-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 1181
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
Yale University Library Manuscripts and Archives. 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
