Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Strentzel Family]
Preview
Transcription
keen & crisp & the stars shone out with better brilliances than one could hope for in these lowland atmospheres. The sunrise was truly glorious. After lingering an hour or so observing & feasting & making a few notes I went down to that halfway hotel for breakfast. I was the only guest. While the family numbered four well attired & intellectual looking persons who for a time kept up a solemn quakerish silence which I tried in vain to break up. But at length all four began a hearty spontaneous discussion upon the art of cat killing solemnly & decently relating in turn all their experiences in this business in by gone time embracing everything with grave fervor in the whole scale of cat all the way up from sackfuls of purbli[illegible] kits to tigerish Tours. Then I knew that such knowledge was attainable only by intellectual New Englanders. My walk down the mtn’-side across the vals’ & thro’ the Oakland hills was very delightful, & I feasted on many a bit of pure picture in purple & gold Natures best.
Location
1419 Taylor St., San Francisco, [Calif]
Date Original
1877 Dec 5
Source
Original letter dimensions: 31 x 20 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir03_0645-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 03, Image 0645
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 2
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
