Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[John Daniel] Runkle
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Transcription
[Page 2] Did ever Nature give more glorious vocal confirmation to words of mortal. Did she ever boom out a more audible Amen. I hope to see the instruments you promised in time for spring use. I will work hard. I sometimes think that I have spent too much time on letters etc. Emerson sent me his essays a short time ago and a letter most kindly written. He startles me by saying in a [ ] mood that I shall certainly settle on the Atlantic Coast soon or late. His merely saying this made feel as if half drawn out of this Yosemite pouch. Since the quake storm I have thought of my mountain mother as wearing common bones and flesh - a marsupial with many a Yosemite pouch. Who wouldn’t believe Darwin when Yosemite shakes herself like a water spaniel and when her huge domes dance and drift loose and free as foam bells at the foot of a waterfall. I will make “Blacks” my headquarters this summer. But I am building a cabin in a thicket of cornus bushes up by Lamons. It will be a calm nest for you and your wife to spend a whole round summer in. Hoping that you will not allow my small papers to trouble you I am ever most cordially yrs John Muir
Location
Yosemite Valley [Calif.]
Date Original
1872 Apr 3
Source
Original letter dimensions: 25 x 20 cm.
Resource Identifier
1872 Apr 3 JM to Runkle
File Identifier
MSS 307 Muiriana
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
John Daniel Runkle Papers, MC 7, Institute Archives and Special Collections, MIT Libraries. 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
1872 Apr 3 JM to Runkle p2
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
