Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
David [Gilrye Muir]
Transcription
At Pat Delaneys ranch near La Grange [Stanislans Co’ Cala?] Nov’ 15th 69
Dear Bro David
Yours of Oct’ 8th & 21st were rec’d some weeks ago I send here with, a bill of exchange for $.290 instead of $500 as I first proposed because I think from the tenor of your letter that this change will make no mat- erial difference to you. I have about $450 [more?] that I was not using, but I told [illegible] D[illegible] & Thos’ [Eagleson?] in whose hands it now is to retain it a while longer if they wished to do so I start tomorrow for the mount- ains again; Yo Semite via Pino blanco Coulterville & Hardings mill I want to study the [illegible] climate & botany I know that looking from the business standpoint you now occupy you will say that I am silly & i[illegible]dent
& that I value my time at too cheap a rate Well [illegible], I have not time to make a long defense – the winter storms of the Sierra are not easily borne but I am betwitched-enchanted & must go. As to your proposition in regard to my writing for your paper I have not time I wrote a description of Twenty hill hollow which I would send you but I have forgotten where I laid it. I must [also decline?] on the same grounds the offer of [general?] cor- respondence with your [farming?] mill friend on California as a place for [illegible] [illegible] from the other states. I will be happy how- ever to answer any particular enquiries that he may send, to the best of my knowledge San Fran papers may easily be procured & in them he will find much of the kind of knowledge he is in [illegible] of. I will make this one statement
that the people of the Atlantic states generally overestimate the ag- ricultural advantages of California. You see that I have put off my adieu to the golden state. I will not leave the Pacific Coast for five or sid months more – I will receive any letters addressed either to Snellings or Hopeton. In shifting from one pursuit to another I make my home either here or at Thos’ Eaglesons. Tell mother & the girls where I have gone Remember me to your wife & little ones Farewell
Cal 1869 [General]
Location
Near La Grange, Stanislaus Co.,Cala
Date Original
1869 Nov 15
Source
Original letter dimensions: 23.5 x 36 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from [John Muir] to David [Gilrye Muir], 1869 Nov 15." (1869). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1319.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1319
Resource Identifier
muir02_0183-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0183
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
3 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
