Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Robert Underwood] Johnson
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Transcription
2You are needed by the young men in our colleges. Solitude is a sublime mistress but an intolerable wife. When Heaven gives the sign leave the mountains, come to my house & live with me until you are tired of me & then I will show you to better people.Then came Gray & more fine rambles & sermons. He said "When you get ready come to Harvard. You have good & able & enthusiastic friends there & we will gladly push you ahead" etc etc etc So much for Ha-a-a-rvard. But you must surely know that I never for a moment though of leaving God's big show. for a mere profship, call who may. The Agassiz sayings you refer to are more nearly true than the college ones. Yosemite was my home when Agassiz was in San Francisco, & I never saw him. When he was there I wrote him a long icy letter telling what glorious things I had to show him & urging him to come to the mountains.Bancroft Library
Location
Martinez [Calif]
Date Original
1895-05-03T00:00:00
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Resource Identifier
muir08_0979-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 08, Image 0979
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 2
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
