Creator
John Muir
Recipient
William Trout
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Transcription
[page 2b] and take comfort in the fact that your life with all its limitations if infinitely richer than that of most people whose advantages are far greater. It needs that a man be very wise and very strong in every way to maintain a keen fresh appreciation of all that is really good in this fine world of ours, in connection with fame or wealth. Contentment in California is the very rarest of the virtues and as wealth increases, the capacity for the enjoyment of God’s best gifts diminishes. Well, I had no intention of reading you so somber a lecture, especially now, since I’m in a great hurry. I leave the city for the mountains of Utah and Nevada tomorrow to do government work on the great geodetic survey. My first book is finished and gone to New York.
Location
San Francisco, Calif.
Date Original
1877 Apr 22
Source
Original letter dimensions: 18 x 23 cm.
Resource Identifier
1877 Apr 22 JM to WT
File Identifier
MSS 2 M953t Trout
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
1877 Apr 22 JM to WT p 2b
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
