Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
Mrs. [Jeanne C.] Carr
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among the falls & rapids studying the grand instruments of slopes and curves & echoing caves upon which those divine harmonies are played Only a [thin glossy sail?] sways & bends over Yo Semite now & Pohono too is a [mob?] of waving [illegible] New songs are sung forming parts of the one grand anthem composed & written in “the beginning” Most of the flowers are dead only a few are blooming in summer nooks on the north side rocks. You remember that delightful fernery by the ladders well I discovered a garden meeting of adia[illegible] far more delicate & luxuriant than those at the ladders. They are in a cove on Cove[illegible] between the upper & lower Yo Sem falls. They are the most delicate & graceful plant creatures I ever beheld, waving their leaves of the most ref[illegible] of heavens beauty to the music of the water The motion of purples dulses in pools left by the tide on the sea coast of Scotland was the only memory that was stirred by these spiritual ferns. You speak of dying & going to the woods I am dead & gone to heaven[in margin: Indian [illegible] to the [illegible] once a month upon snow shoes He brings the mail too. I [illegible] from your address to Yo Semite via Big [illegible] care of Mr. Hutchings] 00487
Location
Yosemite
Date Original
1869 Dec 6
Source
Original letter dimensions: 23.5 x 18 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir02_0195-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0195
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
