Creator
Cora Cressey Crow
Recipient
John Muir
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[6]glowing with the beauties of nature and a scientific knowledge of them and who made one realize how much of beauty there is in our daily environment which we continually pass by unnoticed then the magnificent views which burst before us at every turn as we began the descent into the Yosemite Creek Basin, so beautifully "[paved?] with do[illegible]" and where you aptly took your first lessons in Nature's sculpture, the trees, rocks and flowers all came in for their share of attention and from the depths of our degenerate brains we realized how superficial is the knowledge gleaned from books when this page of Nature was ofered to us and her hieroglyphics transferred into plain prose by a certain ROSETTA STONE at our sides! I write this as Ina Coolbrith did when telling a friend she had pleuro-pneumonia, saying, "I write it in capitals because that's the way I had it." Indeed I feel like using capitals to describe the entire trip, but my limited supply of ink incapacitates me; from making even as large an exclamation point as yours after you had said something particularly nice about the members of Camp Cuervo, however, "a woman does not mind, having a dozen or more such compliments to string on the rosary of her remembrances," so I thank you very much "for the Crows[illegible]" Kindly tell Mrs. Muir I shall take great pleasure in meeting her, in that she knew my father, knowing and liking him, which were one and the same thing, is the open sesame to my heart. Tell Wanda and Helen that we have no beautiful forests at El Cuervo but if they want ot learn to ride horseback to come up and let Paul teach them. he is a very busy little lad these days-practices on the piano an hour a day and studies well. but isn't overly fond of his books I am afraid.
Location
Crow's Landing [Calif]
Date Original
circa [1895 Sep]
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20 x 25 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir08_1209-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 08, Image 1209
Copyright Status
Copyright status unknown
Copyright Statement
Some letters written to John Muir may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
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.
Page Number
Page 4
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
