Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Daniel Muir, Jr]
Transcription
[1869]
Yosemite Valley Dec 8th
Dear Doctor
Your last with your [face?] reached me ere I started for the mts I enjoyed the ever glorious rocks & waters of this godly temple, but I was called from the world of Natures beauty to the hard outside world of mortal facts. I am engage ed to make a sawmill in this place & so will be here all winter It seems most sacreligious to mar the harmonies of these divine waterfalls with the screeching of a mill – to set the white waters of Yo semite to work ere it is tranquil in its passage from the sky. Winter will soon turn the key upon us & we will be locked, “Snowbound” in this the grandest earthly mansion that the Lord has in all the open world. But you must write for Indian Tom comes to the valley once a month on snow-shoes & brings the mail. Of course you are busy & happy among your wise men & bones
but would you not like to see & hear the winter grandeur of Yosemite. You may be blessed, but I am glorious “ [over?] a the ils o life [victorious?]” I suppose that you will be delivered from the chattering skeletons & [professors on Jan 1s?] well if so think of your sweetheart & of me locked up in an house not made with hands whose walls are a mile in height & beautiful as those of the New Jerusalem. I trust that you will be very successful in digging in the grim mines of disease & live to cure many a colic & “[sair breest?]”
[illegible] you well [illegible] [illegible] [most?] cordially John Muir
Location
Yosemite Valley
Date Original
1869 Dec 5
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Daniel Muir, Jr], 1869 Dec 5." (1869). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1320.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1320
Resource Identifier
muir02_0189-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0189
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
The Huntington 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
