Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Catharine] Merrill
Transcription
[Original letter returned to Miss M. Merrill]
Dec. 1st., [1868]
Dear Merrill friends:
Good evening. I am sitting upon a California door-step. I came out to look at the night and happened to think of you. I think of you often, but seldom so vividly as now. I often wonder why I cannot hear from you.
The full moon is a few degrees above the grand Sierra Nevadas and only one small cloud flake is in all the sky. Beautiful night, and something has spoken of Indiana.
A little way out on the plains between the Stanislaus and Tuolumne rivers, Dec. 1st.
J.M.
[Envelope addressed Miss Catherine Merrill, Care Merrill & Co., Indianapolis, Ind.]
Location
[Hopeton, Calif. ?]
Circa Date
[1868] Dec 1
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Catharine Merrill, 1868 Dec 1" (1868). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1286.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1286
Resource Identifier
muir01_1276-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 01, Image 1276
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
