Creator
John Muir
Recipient
S[arah Muir Galloway]
Transcription
anchored in the soul among all the tides & currents of life, & linked for our enjoy- ment with others so widely separated- But goodbye I must not bore your with too long a letter. Alas how little a letter contains.
[in margin: I forgot to take paper to the field & did not wish to lose the moment of inspiration]
Please write soon Cordially J Muir
00467
East bank of Lily Valley Feb 27th 69 ----------------
Dear sister S.
I thought I was free from all epistalory obligation, but along comes your November dare speaking of long silence though I lately mailed an office full of letters but never mind – My sheep are lying down & with my pencil & newspaper scraps I
will soon satisfy your letter appetite - This is a bright warm cloudless day - Nature is in deep close green again & about twenty of her spring flowers are enjoying perfect life in the sweet nursing sunshine - the banks of the valley before me are peopled with countless multitudes of lilies, so it called Lily Valley, I gathered a little coiled boragewort
a few minutes ago whose sweet fragrance stirred the long silent memories of summer in our old Dunbar garden. It must have something in common with the pansies & dusty millers of our little plots. Strange is it not that as gentle & unmaterial a thing as the fragrance of a flower should live with memory so bright & fresh from youth to age safely
Location
East bank of Lily Valley
Circa Date
[18]69 Feb 27
Source
Original letter dimensions: 3.5 x 20.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to S[arah Muir Galloway], [18]69 Feb 27." (1869). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1291.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1291
Resource Identifier
muir02_0033-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0033
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
