Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
[Joseph] Le Conte
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Transcription
2. I do not hope to make any adequate translation of what I have seen and heard. I only hope to make you come and see for yourself. If you could be made to feel the truth that is here you would come like an atom to the magnet without a thought of time or duties. (I wonder that manu- factured proprieties and duties should so shackle and cobweb God's human flies.) But next year you will have what you call vacation, when mankind and your wife will let you come, but I set a few baits to make sure of you. The Merced ice basin was bounded by the summits, and by two spurs which once 3.reached to the summits, viz. the Hoffman and Obelisk ranges, thus - Summits [drawing]In this basin not one island existed. All its highest peaks were washed and overflowed by the ice. Starr King. South Dome - and all. Some ice from about Mt Lyell and Dana, ect broke over the Hoffman range into the Tuolumne basin below the Soda Springs, thus cutting off the Hoffman from the
Location
Yosemite [Calif.]
Date Original
1872 Dec 17
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 25.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir02_0999-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0999
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
