Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Alice [Mc Chesney]
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Transcription
[Original letter returned to Mrs. J. B. McChesney]1419 Taylor St.,San Fran., May 5th, 1875.My dear Alice:I have just received your wee letter, and I was glad to get it [and] to hear all about your going to school and about your brother and the chickens.I got down to the city from Mt. Shasta last evening, and I would have been over at your house to give you some mountain lilies I brought for you had I not been lame. I got my feet frost-nipped on Mt. Shasta in a storm, but they are getting well and I will be over soon. I wish you could come and get them before they wither.I saw a great many ferns and flowers growing along the banks of the Sacramento River and around the base of Mt. Shasta, but I had not time to gather them. The flower that eats butterflies lives up there. I hope you will get the lilies before they wither. I saw a bumble-bee on the very top of Mt. Shasta high above the storm clouds. I hope the fine strong fellow was not frost-bitten like me.I am,Ever your friend,John Muir
Location
San Francisco
Date Original
1875 May 5
Source
Original letter dimensions: 33 x 21.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir03_0305-trans.tif
File Identifier
Reel 03, Image 0305
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
