Creator

John Muir

Creator

[John Muir]

Recipient

Merrill [Moores]

Transcription

[Original letter returned to Miss M. Merrill] [New York, March, 1868]. My dear Merrill [Moores]: It is just about a year since I learned to know your step in Mr. Sutherland's hall. Your pleasant Irving readings had much to do in procuring me the enjoyments that I have feasted upon in Cuba and the South. It seems long since I saw you, Merrill, though it is only six or seven months since we were together in the west. You would have been delighted with the big white topped waves that we saw on our sail to New York. Our little vessel climbed up and down among them in gallant style. She was loaded with Havana oranges. I am sure you would like the cocoa palms of Cuba and the long evergreen vines. Do you remember the feather description of the cocoa leaves. I wish you could see them, they might make anyone take a stammer-fever in trying to describe them. You could easily walk with me now, and in Cuba you might have been always before me, as in Wisconsin you were always behind, but I am getting strong since I came to the cool winds of Cape Hatteras and Sandy Hook. I suppose you have enjoyed your school lessons this winter. Indiana winds will soon be warm, and the flowers will come to you again. I hope you will visit them sometimes. Goodbye, my boy. I hope you will always be good. I shall not see you for a long time. [John Muir]

Location

[New York]

Circa Date

[1868 Mar]

Source

Original letter dimensions: 33.0 x 21.5 cm

Resource Identifier

muir01_1198-trans.tif

File Identifier

Reel 01, Image 1198

Collection Identifier

Online finding aid for the microform version of the John Muir Correspondence http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0w1031nc

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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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

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

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