Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Elizabeth N. Moores]
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[5]yesterday for noon I helped him to dam the meadow brook and to make a water wheel for it. My own days of juvenile mill wrighting came back with very full recollection After making a few suggestions I left him to plan my work for his spluttering wabbling wheel he might judge it capable of performing well, I was pleased to see how eagerly he set about his work. In the afternoon he planted a pole ten feet long in the mud opposite his new precious property, then tieing a tin cup to a thread twenty feet long he passed the end of it over the pole and attached it to the water wheel shaft, then starting his mill raised and lowered the cupful of water with a seriocomic motion exactly like that of the asending flag at your society Fourth of July
Location
[Portage, Wisc.]
Date Original
[1867] Jun 18
Resource Identifier
muir01_1084-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 01, Image 1084
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
Indiana Historical Society Library. 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 4
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
