Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Ralph Waldo] Emerson
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Transcription
I say again, come to Yosemite. I am making a log cabin where you can nestle in calm, & when we go to the upper Yosemites I will have a horse & tent ready for you. We will drift about the blessed mtn's softly as winged seeds, & every night I'll make you a better bed than Milton made for Adam, & you will not take cold for mtn trees are full of sunshine gums, & we'll make a sunrise of a fire, that will glow all through the night. You will learn how mountains are carved to this beauty, you will bathe in bodily beamless light, Light that contains rays that no chemist, no colorist ever found. You will drink pure Mtn' winds those glorious gul[illegible] streams of the sky, Come! To you it matters little how many inches you are from Concord. You are angeled & safe, come a whole year if you can. Think How a whole Yo- Semite year would shine in the middle sky of a life like yours. Perhaps too much has been written & perhaps these sheets may have some impertinence, but I'll not take any blame for they [illegible] themselves. I often looked down to my pen & asked, what are you saying? The mtns themselves are calling you. I wish you were here this night to be trotted & dumpled on this mountain knee, Most cordially yrs John Muir -
Location
Yosemite Valley
Date Original
1872 Mar 26
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Resource Identifier
muir02_0743-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0743
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
John Muir National Historic Site. 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 4
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
