Creator
John Muir
Recipient
R[alph] W[aldo] Emerson
Transcription
[4]
With most cordial regards I am yours in Nature John Muir
John Muir 1871
[1] [ca 8 May 1871]
Yosemite Valley Monday night
Mr R W Emerson
Dear Sir I re'cd today a letter from Mrs Prof E Carr of Oakland Cal' sating that you were in the valley & that she expected to see you on your return. Also she promised that she would write you here & send you to me. I was delighted at the thought of meeting you but have just learned that you contemplate leaving the valley in a day or two Now Mr Emerson I do most cordially protest against your going away so soon, & so also I am sure do all your instincts & affemilies I trust that you
[2]
will not "outweary their yearnings" Do not thus drift away with the mob while the Spirits of these rocks & waters hail you after long waiting as their kinsman & persuade you to closer communion But now if Fate or one of those mongrel & misshapen organizations called parties compel you to leave for the present. I shall hope for some other fullness of time to come for you. If you will call at Mr Hutchings mill I will give you as many of Yosemite & high Sierra plants as you wish as specimens. I write you join me in a months worship with Nature in the high temples of the great
[3]
Sierra Crown beyond our holy Yosemite It will cost you nothing save the time & very little of that for you will be mostly in Eternity An now once more in the name of Mts Dana & G[illegible] of the grand glacial hiero- glyphics of Tuolumne meadows & Bloody Canon, - In the name of a hundred glacial lakes- of a hundred glacial-daisy -gentian meadows. In the name of a hundred cascades that barbarous visitors never see. In the name of the grand upper forests of [illegible] Amabilis & [illegible] grand[illegible] & in the name of all the spirit Creatures of these rocks & of this whole spiritual atmosphere Do not leave us now
Location
Yosemite Valley
Circa Date
[1871 May 8]
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to R[alph] W[aldo] Emerson, [1871 ca May 8]." (1871). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1374.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1374
Resource Identifier
muir02_0439-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0439
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 Houghton Library, Harvard University. 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
