Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
[Jeanne C.] Carr
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Transcription
[7] 6arching meteors gave me confidence to escape to this snug place where Mr Chesney & I slept one night where I have a fire to dry my socks. This rock shelf extending behind the falls, is about five hundred feet above the base of the fall on the perpendicular rock face How little do we know of ourselves of our profoundest attractions & repulsions of our spiritual affinities How interesting does man become considered in his re- lations to the spirit of this rock & water how significant does every atom of our world become amid the influences of those beings unseen, spiritual - angelic mountaineers that so throng#9185 00194[9] 8the clean & the unclean & he would love all memory & meaning of the diabolical sin begotten term foulness Well I must go down I am disregarding all of the doctors physiology in sitting here in this universal moisture Farewell to you & to all the beings about us. I shall have a glorious walk down the mountain in this thin white light over the open brows grayed with Selaginela & through the thick black shadow caves in the live oaks all stuck full of snowy lances of moonlight #9185 00194
Location
[Yosemite]
Date Original
1871 Apr 3
Source
Original letter dimensions: 13.5 x12 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir02_0411-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0411
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 5
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
