Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
[Jeanne C.] Carr
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Transcription
[6] 5some heavy plashes of water struck me, driven hard against the wall suddenly I was darkened, down came a section of the outside tissue composed of spent comets, I crouched low holding my breath & anchored to some angular flakes of rock, took my baptism with moderately good faith. When I dared to look up after the swaying column admitted light I pounced behind a piece of ice & the wall which was wedging tight & I no longer feared being washed off & steady moonbeams slanting past the[8] 7these pure mansions of crystal foam & purple granite I cannot refrain from speaking to this little bush at my side & to the spray drops that come to my paper & to the individual sands of the slopelet I am sitting upon Ruskin says that the idea of foulness is essentially connected with what he calls dead unorganized matter How cordially I disbelieve him tonight & were he to dwell a while among the powers of these mountains he would forget all dictionary difference betwixt
Location
[Yosemite]
Date Original
1871 Apr 3
Source
Original letter dimensions: 13.5 x12 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir02_0409-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0409
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 4
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
