Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Helen and Wanda [Muir]
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[Page 2] The heather where it is the thickest makes the brownish patches. The heather is a good deal like Cassiope, a small shrub tufty and dense and makes delightful fragrant beds for highlanders and all lovers of fresh flowery breezy wildness. I have not yet climbed the Scotch hills to find out much about heather. I have seen two species, the bell and the common kind. It seldom grows higher than a foot or so, two feet at most. It is very hardy though so lovely and will endure any amount of trampling nibbling and burning. The sheep eat it, and heather mutton may well be the best.
Location
[near] Oban, Scotland
Date Original
1893 Jul 23
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20 x 13 cm.
Resource Identifier
1893 July 23 JM to daughters
File Identifier
MSS 301 Shone
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
1893 July 23 JM to daughters p2
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
