Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
Annie [L. Muir]
Transcription
Hopeton Aug' 15, 68
Dear twin Ann, I was sorry to know that you had borrowed trouble over me, your anxiety was of far too rapid a growth, having sprouted, leafed, & fruited ere it had any business to come out of the ground, - Those three months in which I was reported missing were the flowerist of all the months of my existence, no matter what direction I travelled I still waded in flowers by day, & slept with them by night, hundreds of flowery gems of most surpassing loveliness touched my feet at every step, and buried them out of sight, I was very happy, the larks & insects long streams of unmeasured joy, glorious mountain walls around me; a sky of plants beneath, & a sky of light above All kept by their Maker in perfect beauty
& pure as heaven I am always a little lonesome Annie- Ought I not to be a man by this time & put away childish things, I have wandered far enough, & seen strange faces enough to feel the whole world a home, & I am a batchelor too, I should not be a boy, but I cannot accustom myself to the coldness of strangers, nor to the shiftings & wanderings of this Arab life. Annie I have not learned to know your handwriting yet, nor Marys, nor Joannas' they are so constantly chang- ing, You use the pen better than formerly, but there is still room for improvement. I do not like this pinched printed style with heavy pen dulumbob markings upon the ts', & ds, & ys, It is the painful, puckered pictured oystem of very exact maidens bred in the far west, I hope you will endeavor to acquire a more sloping flowing
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Location
Hopeton [Calif.]
Date Original
1868 Aug 15
Source
Original letter dimensions: 21.0 x 13.0 cm
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Annie L. Muir, 1868 Aug 15" (1868). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1279.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1279
Resource Identifier
muir01_1238-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 01, Image 1238
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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, see http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Fees-and-Forms-.html
Owning Institution
University of the Pacific Library Holt-Atherton Special Collections. 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
