Creator

Jeanne C. Carr

Recipient

John Muir

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448 [1868] Madison May 25. Dear John - I feel your presence and sympathy in all the gladness of the opening season, but I also feel very keenly the loss of you in my life. I meant to keep such even step with you through all the journey which I prayed might be a blessed one. and before I knew I lost every track and trace of you. This is strange because I wrote exactly as you directed both to Cedar Keys and to New Orleans. I am not a little heavy hearted about you, what have the tropic weeds done to our dear pilgrim youth? To morrow I am going off into the woodiest of our woods with Thüre Rumlein - to find

Location

Madison, [Wisc]

Date Original

[1868] May 25

Source

Original letter dimensions: 21.0 x 13.5 cm

Resource Identifier

muir01_1204-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 01, Image 1204

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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.

Page Number

Page 1

Keywords

John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle

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