Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
[Jeanne C.] Carr
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Transcription
[2]But now what can say more than wish again that you might expose your soul to the rays of this heaven Silver from the moon illumines this glorious creation which we term 'falls' & has laid a magnificent double prismatic bow at its lose The tissue of the falls is delicately filmed on the outside like the substance of spent clouds, & the stars shine dimly through it, In the#9185 00194[3] 2 solid shafted body of the falls is a vast number of passing caves, black & deep, with close white convolving spray for sills & shooting comet sheaves about & down their sides, like lime crystals in a cave, & every atom of the magnificent being from the thin silvery crest that does not dim the stars to the inner arrowy hardened shafts that strike onward like thunder bolts in sound & energy all is life & spirit, every bolt & spray feels the hand of God
Location
[Yosemite]
Date Original
1871 Apr 3
Source
Original letter dimensions: 13.5 x12 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir02_0405-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0405
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
