Creator
Anna Blanche McGill
Recipient
[Robert Underwood] Johnson
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Transcription
[1]288, West 70th St.My dear Mr. Johnson.I send you many thanks for the magazine containing a sketch of your great idyllist, Mr. Muir. It is truly delightful to me to have these personalia about one who is undoubtedly mightier than all the others, even, as Emerson said "greater than Thoreau"; if I may a moment give vent to the enthusiasum Mr. Muir06350[2]stirs in me--he is a Titan while others are but great men--a Titan in experience and in glorious power over syllable, word and sentence to say forth the majesty of the mountains he lives amongst. He knows, it seems to me, nature with a bigger heart than any one else has found, and for the knowledge has such happy large utterances as fairly bears one along like the "passionate music and motion" of his wind-storms in the forests; then again there's a musical resonance in his paragraphs that I'm sure
Location
[place unknown]
Date Original
circa [ca 1894]
Source
Original letter dimensions: 16.5 x 24.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir08_0679-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 08, Image 0679
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 1
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
