Creator

[John Muir]

Recipient

[Sarah Muir Galloway]

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Transcription

at night about the same time I am within sight of my gray box of a shanty & will reach it in about an hour I wish you could look on the loveliness before me. The rich mellow light is laidon plain & mountain without a tinge of haze. The south dome rock of the Yo-Semite is in view clad in pearly white & so extremely distinct that you would imagine you could read

Location

Bank of Castle Creek near Rock River

Date Original

[1869] Feb 27

Source

Original letter dimensions: 2.5 x 18.5 cm.

Resource Identifier

muir02_0047-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 02, Image 0047

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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 2

Keywords

John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle

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