Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
[Jeanne C.] Carr
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Transcription
[4]You only of my friends congratulated me on my happiness in having avoided the misery & mud of March but for the serious part of your letter - the kind of life which our [illegible] friends have, and their relation to us. I do not know what to think of it I must write of the some other time In this first walk I found Eugenia which here is ever first, and sweet little violets, and Sanguinaria, and Isopyrum too, and Thalictrum anemenoides were almost ready to venture their faces to the sky. The red maple was in full flower glory; the leaves be- low, & the mosses were bright with its fallen scarlet blossoms, and the elm too was in flower & the earliest willows -all this when your fields had scarce the memory of a flower left in them! I will not try to tell you how much I enjoyed in this walk after four weeks in bed You can feel it 00410[1] [1867] #10 Ind' May 2d, 69Dear friend Mrs Carr I am sorry & surprised to hear of the cruel fate of your plants. I have never seen so happy flowers in any other home, - they lived with you so cheerfully & confidingly, and felt so sure of receiving from you sympathy and tenderness in all their sorrows How could they grow cold & colder and die without your knowing - they must have called you could any bedroom be so remote they could not hear - I am very sorry, Mrs Carr, for you & for them; can your loss be repaired
Location
Ind[ianapolis, Ind.]
Date Original
[1867] May 2
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 25.0 cm
Resource Identifier
muir01_1050-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 01, Image 1050
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
