Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
[Merrills & Moores]
Preview
Transcription
I wish I were among the storms & winds of the N for a while all sights & sounds are strange here (The winds go among the long folds & tassels of long moss & the broad shining live oaks & the dry longfingered leaves of the palmettos & over hundreds of strange vines & bushes gathering up a burden sounds that on Northman can read The streams speak only in low whispers ever in deepest shade muffled with [illegible] that dips upon them from banks above The birds are mostly strange & it requires much time to become accustomed to the voices, the mocking bird is a very fine singer and a noble good looking bird & many of the smaller wood birds are perfect gems both in song & appearance I think that some of our northern birds that winter here get a foreign accent even the crow it seems to me puts on airs & caws in a different language) The climate of these Keys is perfectly delightful in the winter when the sun shines with its very best light just the same in quality as that which fills the balmy days of your Indian summer I known of but one deciduous tree or bush on the island all retain their green leaves without any of the tints of Autumn but plant green here is not so bright & pure as it is at the N because the grass leaves are coarser & stand more upright & because the sun beams so glance & blaze upon the glossy thick evergreen leaves of the trees which are so abundant that the whole green of the landscape is mixed & whitened I have repeatedly gone up to examine a bush that seemed to be white with flowers but which had only bright leaves We often go the house top to see the sun set we obtain a splendid view of land & water & sea It could not be more beautifully arranged I never saw more beautiful sunsets anywhere the sky colored to the most perfect loveliness Jo M[illegible] M[uir?]Climate fls Brds etc.\ of Fla 01042
Location
Ced[ar] Key[s], [Fla]
Date Original
1868 Jan 3
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 13.0 cm
Resource Identifier
muir01_1166-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 01, Image 1166
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
