Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
[Merrills and Moores]
Transcription
[Original Letter returned to Miss Merrill] [Indianapolis, March [1 10] 4 (6?), 1867] Friends, I have lost an eye. Yesterday in connecting a machine belt I thrust a pointed file through the outer membrane and as I received the liquid of the first bruise upon my fingers felt that not a single flower, no more of lovely scenery, not any more of beauty would ever pass the portal of my right eye. It is lost. For weeks I have daily [studied] maps in locating a route through the southern states, the West Indies, South America, and Europe –a botanical journey studied for years, and so my mind has long been in a glow with visions of the glories of a tropical flora, but, alas, I am half blind. My right eye, trained to minute analysis is lost, and I have scarce heart to open the other. Had this journey been accomplished the stock of varied beauty acquired would have made me willing to have shrunk away into any .corner of the world, however obscure and however remote. I am weary and nervous with pain and sorrow and confinement. [John Muir] [Above letter addressed "Friends'' is to the Merrills and Moores]
Location
[Indianapolis, Ind.]
Circa Date
[1867 Mar 4]
Source
Original letter dimensions: 33.0 x 21.5 cm
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Merrills and Moores, ca 1867 Mar 4" (1867). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1217.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1217
Resource Identifier
muir01_0936-trans.tif
File Identifier
Reel 01, Image 0936
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
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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, click here to view the Holt-Atherton Special Collections policies.
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.
Copyright Holder
Muir-Hanna Trust
Copyright Date
1984
Pages
1 page
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
