Creator
G[eorge] W. Cable
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
[letterhead]
Dec 18, 1893.
My dear Mr Muir:
I am only now really settled down at home for a stay of a few weeks. I wanted to have sent to you long ago the book I mail now and which you kindly [illegible]ented to accept from me — Laurier's poems. There are in Laurier such wonderful odors of pine, and hay, and salt sands and cedar, and corn, and such whisperings of Eolian stra[illegible]es and every out-door sound - I think you would have had great joy in one another's personal acquaintance. And this makes me think how much I have in yours. Your face and voice, your true, rich words, are close to my senses now as I write, and I cry hungrily for more. The snow is on us everywhere now,
and as I look across the white, crusted waste I see such mellowness of yellow sunlight and long blue and purple shadows that I want some adequate manly partnership to help me reap the rapture of such beauty. In one place a stretch of yellow grass standing above the snow or blown clear of it glows golden in the slant light. The heavens are blue as my love's eyes and the [illegible] are black lace against their infinite distance. Last night I walked across the frozen white under a moonlight and starlight that made the way seem through the wastes of a stellar [illegible] and not along the surface of one poor planet. Write and tell me, I pray you, what these big brothers of yours, the mountains, have been saying to you of late. It will compensate in part, but only in part, for the absence of your spoken words.
Yours truly G.W. Cable
01749
Location
Northampton, Mass.
Date Original
1893 Dec 18
Source
Original letter dimensions: 21.5 x 14 cm.
Recommended Citation
Cable, George W., "Letter from G[eorge] W. Cable to John Muir, 1893 Dec 18." (1893). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1018.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1018
Resource Identifier
muir07_1427-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 07, Image 1427
Collection Identifier
Online finding aid for the microform version of the John Muir Correspondence http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0w1031nc
Copyright Status
Copyright status unknown
Copyright Statement
Some letters written to John Muir may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
Owning Institution
Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Pages
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
