Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
[Daniel Muir, Jr]
Transcription
[4]
& follow my instincts & am most intensely happy Some day you will also behold the Lords Yosemite I went to a noted point at the top of the valley wall today & am a little foot- sore. Yesterday I went alone up the rocks to the upper Yosemite fall & back in (a days work) the night. after doing my days work to enjoy the glory of the fall in the moonlight [illegible] [illegible] ago I was at the summit of Mt. Hoffman with an English man & Scotch man, Farewell Be hopeful & patient & do not overwork yourself. I have full confidence in you & am your brother
[1]
Yosemite June 4th [1871?]
Dear brother
Some time ago I rec'd a letter from you in which you requested a loan of a few dollars etc. I answered at once saying that I would willingly send you what you wanted if I could get out of the valley in the fall to send it I addressed the letter to Ann Arbor & perhaps you have not rec'd it As long as I have a dollar you are far more than welcome to it if you need it & I hope that you will not allow yourself to suffer for anything that
[2]
you require I am in the heart of the mtns or I would send you $200 at once I am glad to hear that you have opened an office & now let me say to you, be cheerful & hopeful. The best of physicians generally have a slow recognition of their talents & many have to go through a sort of starving period before they are known & appreciated, but be stout of heart, you have many friends & will soon have more & I suppose a true woman to share your joys & trials & labors. & Brother at this distance I reach my hand to you & press it with all the warmth of co[illegible]ding affection & say that
[3]
you shall never know a want that I can relieve wherever I may roam. Remember me very kindly to your love & say that I will be very happy to know her I am working hard in every way but enjoy most of my work Sometimes operating the saw- mill Sometimes garding in the mtns. I am more & more interested in science & am making may friends among the learned & the good who all seem to hail me as a brother I have no fixed practical aim, but am living in con- stant communion with Nature
Location
Yosemite
Circa Date
[1871] Jun 4
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from [John Muir] to [Daniel Muir, Jr], [1871?] Jun 4." (1871). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1379.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1379
Resource Identifier
muir02_0457-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0457
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
