Creator
Jeanne C. Carr
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
448 [1868]
Madison May 25.
Dear John -
I feel your presence and sympathy in all the gladness of the opening season, but I also feel very keenly the loss of you in my life. I meant to keep such even step with you through all the journey which I prayed might be a blessed one. and before I knew I lost every track and trace of you. This is strange because I wrote exactly as you directed both to Cedar Keys and to New Orleans. I am not a little heavy hearted about you, what have the tropic weeds done to our dear pilgrim youth? To morrow I am going off into the woodiest of our woods with Thüre Rumlein - to find
Arethnsa, and (God willing) Calyp- so - a journey of a hundred miles by jail wagon and on foot, for just two of our fathers children! Dear John how [rich?] you must be by this time! I only write a word now. So uncertain is it if any word will reach you. But I want to know when you are coming back, and if you should touch home soil at New York. I want you to come & see me in Vermont where I am going to spend the summer - I shall be in Castleton Rutland Co. after the 4th of July - until October, probably and I want to see you very very much - My old father & brother know you, and will make you welcome - Dr Carr has left the University. We shall keep our Madison home for the pres- ent and where ever our tent is pitched it will be easy to hang up a curtain for you - All send love and I am always your friend,
Jeanne C. Carr.
[in margin: [illegible]]
00443
Location
Madison, [Wisc]
Circa Date
[1868] May 25
Source
Original letter dimensions: 21.0 x 13.5 cm
Recommended Citation
Carr, Jeanne C., "Letter from Jeanne C. Carr to John Muir, 1868 May 25" (1868). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1273.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1273
Resource Identifier
muir01_1204-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 01, Image 1204
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
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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
