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
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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, 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
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
