Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Dav[id Gilrye Muir]
Transcription
[1871] No date Yosemite Apr 19th odds
Dear Dave
I dont know anything concerning my future course farther than that I will not return very soon & If at any time you are near Indianapolis I wish you would pack my things left in my room at Wm Sutherlands on McCartney St. He works in the Hub factory I told Dan to do this for me if he could make it convenient There is a lot of framed pictures. You can have one if you wish it I am still sawing & will likely be here all summer 00533
The violets are coming on the sunny places & the oaks & Balm of Gileads are having out their catkins, but we have occasional snow storms nevertheless, burying flowers & butterflies ------------- I dont know from present appearances how much money I will be able to send you this fall or whether I shall leave California at that time I mean to spend a month or two on the summit peaks this summer botanizing sketching & making observations on the old glaciers which filled all the higher basins some short time ago I will try to obtain company but will likely have to go alone My love to all John Muir
[Original letter in possession of David Gilrye Muir]
Yosemite, Apr. 19th, [1871].
Dear Dave:
I don't know anything concerning my future course farther than that I will not return very soon, and if at any time you are near Indianapolis I wish you would pack my things left in my room at Wm. Sutherlands on McCartney St. He works In the Hub factory. I told Dan to do this for me, if he could make it convenient. There [are] (is)a lot of framed pictures. You can have one if you wish it. I am still sawing, and will likely be here all summer.
The violets are coming on the sunny places, and the oaks and Balm of Gileads are having out their catkins, but we have occasional snow storms nevertheless, burying flowers and butterflies.
I don't know from present appearances how much money I will be able to send you this fall, or whether I shall leave California at that time. I mean to spend a month or two on the summit peaks this summer, botanizing, sketching, and making observations on the old glaciers which, filled all the higher basins some short time ago. I will try to obtain company, but will likely have to go alone. My love to all.
John Muir
[Date 1871 supplied, as Muir refers to operations in sawmill, commenced in spring of 1870, as still continuing, and the record of his "Autobiography" states that he was employed by Mr. Hutchings about two years].
Location
Yosemite
Circa Date
[1871] Apr 19
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 12.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Dav[id Gilrye Muir], [1871] Apr 19." (1871). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1372.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1372
Resource Identifier
muir02_0431-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0431
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
