Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
Mrs. [Jeanne C.] Carr
Transcription
19
Yosemite Dec 6th 69
Dear friend Mrs Carr
I am feasting in the Lords Mountain house & what pen may write my blessings I am going to dwell here all winter magnificently "snowbound" just think of the grandeur of mountain winter in Yo-Semite would that you could enjoy it also I read your word of pencil upon the bridge below the Nevada & I thank you for it most devoutly No one nor all of the Lords blessings can enable me to exist without friends indeed — There is no snow in the valley, the ground is covered with the brown & yellow leaves of the oak & maple & their crisping & rustling make me think of the groves of Madison I have been wandering about
among the falls & rapids studying the grand instruments of slopes and curves & echoing caves upon which those divine harmonies are played Only a [thin glossy sail?] sways & bends over Yo Semite now & Pohono too is a [mob?] of waving [illegible] New songs are sung forming parts of the one grand anthem composed & written in “the beginning” Most of the flowers are dead only a few are blooming in summer nooks on the north side rocks. You remember that delightful fernery by the ladders well I discovered a garden meeting of adia[illegible] far more delicate & luxuriant than those at the ladders. They are in a cove on Cove[illegible] between the upper & lower Yo Sem falls. They are the most delicate & graceful plant creatures I ever beheld, waving their leaves of the most ref[illegible] of heavens beauty to the music of the water The motion of purples dulses in pools left by the tide on the sea coast of Scotland was the only memory that was stirred by these spiritual ferns. You speak of dying & going to the woods I am dead & gone to heaven
[in margin: Indian [illegible] to the [illegible] once a month upon snow shoes He brings the mail too. I [illegible] from your address to Yo Semite via Big [illegible] care of Mr. Hutchings]
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Location
Yosemite
Date Original
1869 Dec 6
Source
Original letter dimensions: 23.5 x 18 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from [John Muir] to Mrs. [Jeanne C.] Carr, 1869 Dec 6." (1869). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1321.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1321
Resource Identifier
muir02_0193-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0193
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
