Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[James Davie] Butler
Transcription
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Most of my strength has suddenly returned I am well now; but tears of gratitude come at the remembrance of your kind words, and I will not forget them. The eye is not entirely lost - it still occupies its home - is not very much altered in appearance - and can look out in cloudy day. For some days all sight was gone, and my first physician said that it would not return, but a little has come, and though from its indistinctness it is of comparatively little use I prize it beyond telling and cling to the hope that
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possibly more and clearer light may come to it hereafter. Now that my mind has returned, I feel that this cup is from our Father, and is given in love. I thank you for your invitation to Madison I long to see you & yours and Mrs Carr, and your dear lakes & flowers, but I think it is improbable that I shall leave Ind - this summer. I was sorry to hear of your sickness - I trust that you will gather that harvest of knowledge which is beyond the atlantic. May God bless your ab- undant labors -
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Muir
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Ind'p'l's Apr 27th
Prof' Butler
Dear friend, Your message of sympathy & cheer came in my deepest need, when I was lost - lost in the darkness of that terrible valley which has gashed my life in tovain from side to side - I was weak in mind as in body - all of my lessons of forti- tude were forgotten - the comforts of religion did not come to me, be- cause my mental powers were stricken down, - all that my spiritual ap- petite craved wad sympathy and of this your letter was full
Location
Ind[iana]p[o]l[i]s, [Ind]
Circa Date
[1867] Apr 27
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to James Davie Butler, 1867 Apr 27" (1867). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1236.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1236
Resource Identifier
muir01_1040-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 01, Image 1040
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley. 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
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
