Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
[Sarah Muir Galloway]
Transcription
type half an inch long upon it & see the movements of squirrels & mice thought 100 miles distant But I will not trouble you with too long a communication Alas how little is contained in a letter00490 Bank of Castle Creek near Rock river Feb 27 --------Old King David called herding "following the sheep", & so it is called here, In good weather they travel a certain round arriving
at night about the same time I am within sight of my gray box of a shanty & will reach it in about an hour I wish you could look on the loveliness before me. The rich mellow light is laidon plain & mountain without a tinge of haze. The south dome rock of the Yo-Semite is in view clad in pearly white & so extremely distinct that you would imagine you could read
Location
Bank of Castle Creek near Rock River
Circa Date
[1869] Feb 27
Source
Original letter dimensions: 2.5 x 18.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from [John Muir] to [Sarah Muir Galloway], [1869] Feb 27." (1869). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1293.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1293
Resource Identifier
muir02_0045-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0045
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
