Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Sarah Muir Galloway]
Transcription
demoralized" & are not the work of either god or man. I mean to herd here about two weeks longer. But Alas how little a letter contains after all. Write soon Cordially John Muir00491 West Bank of Castle creek Feb 27DSS The time grows longer & longer since I heard from you. My sheep stole a march while I was compiling the long pages of 20 hill hollow & now here they are "ower the hills & far away" to the peebly banks of castle creek, so called from
a lonely rock standing in the centre of a valley there the streams takes its rise. At a distance this rock looks like an old castle Sheep herding has been extolled by philosophers & poets, but I think that both philosophy & poetry are dimly seen in the business if seen at all.Milton bewailed his inability to see "flocks & herds" but I don't care of I should never see any more of these dirty mongrel mutton assemblies The native mountain sheep is a happy animal & handsome as a deer but these misshapen mixed "improved" creatures are "fearfully
Location
West Bank of Castle Creek
Source
Original letter dimensions: 3 x 22.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Sarah Muir Galloway], [1869] Feb 27." (1869). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1294.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1294
Resource Identifier
muir02_0049-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0049
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
