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
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
Copyright Status
Copyrighted
Copyright Statement
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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
