Creator
John Muir
Recipient
J[anet Moores]
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[4]spangles on rivers & lakes, light on the myraid stars of the snow, light sifthing through the angels of sun-[illegible]icebergs, light in glacier caves, missed spray raft= ing from white waterfalls, and the light of calm starry nights beheld from mountain tops dipping deep into the clear air.Aye my lassie it is a blessed thing to go [from?] in the light of this beauti -ful world to see God playing upon every thing, as a man would play on an musical instrument: His fingers upon the lightning & [illegible] [stricken word] any name of sea & sky and every living thing, [illegible] old together [illegible] & shine in [illegible]etc. some awakening of the Universe [illegible]what [illegible] milk so for & wide, now you are so over, and when I shall soon see you face to face. 01257[1]Martinez Cal. Feb. 23-'87 "My Dear Friend J-Have you really turned into a woman, & have you really come to California, the land of the sun, & Yosemite & a' that. through the whirl of all those years, Seas between us [illegible]has soared, my lassie, since the auld lange syne, and many a storm has roared over head mountains and plains since last we parted, yet - however are but little changed in all that signifies, saved from many dangers that we know, & from many more that we never shall know - kept - alive and well by a thousand thousand miracles.Twenty years! How long and how short a time that seems today,
Location
Martinez, California
Date Original
1887 Feb 23
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20 x 25 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir05_0784-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 05, Image 0784
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
