Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Mabel Colf, [et al.]
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though many of the stories about them are much taller.The fine new schoolhouse you so well describe - set on a hill, in sight of the mountains, nearer the sea than any other in the city brings to mind the two I attended when a boy in Scotland. They were one-room buildings, & both stood much nearer the sea than yours, one of them so near that at high tide the waves seemed to be playing tag on our play ground stone wall, running up the sandy shore & perhaps just touching the base of the wall & hurrying back. But sometimes in wild storms the tops of the waves came surging over the wall into the play ground, while the finer spray flying on the roaring gale drenched & washed the school house itself - These great gray roaring booming storms were glorious sights, but we were taught to pity the poor sailors, for many good ships were wrecked & driven ashore by them
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1904-07-17 00:00
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Resource Identifier
muir14_0386-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 14, Image 0386
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
Unknown
Copyright Holder
Muir-Hanna Trust
Copyright Date
1984
Page Number
Page 2
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
