Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
James Davie Butler
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Transcription
[in margin: 434 58]April 26/05Dear James Davie Butler:With all my heart I congratulate you on your 90 long happy whirls through the starry heavens, all of them serene & beautiful like the stars themselves. How well you have borne the burden of joy & grief, heat & cold of your 90 year day, & in the midst of it all going again & again round the world like a moon. Surely few lives have been happier than yours, always doing some good, radiating smile-beams through dark & light, steadfast & true like a tree in all sorts of weather & fortune. Happy man! Good luck to you for the remaining yrs & for the yearless life beyond. Ever your faithful scholar admirer & friend [in margin: over]
Location
[Martinez, Calif.]
Date Original
1905-04-26 00:00
Source
Original letter dimensions: 28 x 21 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir15_0396-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 15, Image 0396
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
Page 1
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
