Creator
John Muir
Recipient
James Davie Butler
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Transcription
[5?] Martinez, CaliforniaJuly 20, 1904.Dear James Davie Butler,Yosemite Magnet:In all my life , now growing long, no other psychological X ray has proved so strong as that shot from yourself as you entered Yosemite 35 years ago, which, as you know, suddenly awakened me from contemplation of the landscape on the top of North Dome & pulled me down to you over rocks & brush by a way I knew not. This to me is still a prime marvel; but I do not marvel that you still walk the earth. For with temperance & tough, inherited strength however hard you have worked & however often you have had to wipe hot sweat from your brow, as you were doing when I found you at Liberty Cap Rock,- your work has been not the killing but the preserving kind, while
Location
Martinez, Calif.
Date Original
1904-07-20 00:00
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Resource Identifier
muir14_0418-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 14, Image 0418
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley. 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
Page 1
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
