Creator

John Muir

Recipient

Jeanne Carr

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[page 4] do all you ask and more. All this letter is about myself, and why not when I’m the only person in all the wide world that I know anything about – Keith, the cascade, not excepted. Fare ye well, mother quail, good betide your brood and be they and you saved from the hawks and the big ugly buzzards and cormorants – grangeal, political, right and wrongical, - and I will be

Ever truly John Muir “Only that and nothing more.”

Location

Yosemite Valley, Calif.

Date Original

1875 Jul 31

Source

Original letter dimensions: 20 x 13 cm.

Resource Identifier

1875 July 31 JM to Mrs Carr

File Identifier

MSS 301 Shone

Copyright Statement

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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

1875 July 31 JM to Mrs Carr p4

Keywords

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

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