Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
Mrs. [Jeanne C. ] Carr
Transcription
[1]
[in margin: If you see Mrs Yelverton before you start for the valley I wish you would ask her about a notebook that I left with her last fall & which a have not since heard of]
Thursday eve' June 22d
Dear friend Mrs Carr Amid all Yosemite things there is this constant thought- Your early coming I hope to see the mill- race dry in one or two weeks when I will be ready for the high Sierra & hope that you will be ready about that time for a month of rambling a month containing a greater number of days than was ever heard of in rhyme or reason I expect to be free from this confounded mill about the first or second week of next month & you must be here to go with me to a thousand places that I wish to show you. A little
[2]
Scotch photographer will go with us to procure some sun picture but he will not Ma[illegible] [illegible] enjoyments. You will require one pack animal to carry a small light tent, & blankets, bread etc You can obtain all necessary provisions here Mr Libby is to purchase a few small articles for me perhaps you can bring them in Now Mrs Carr Come - A thousand voices are calling from many a forest & stream & meadow of the grand sierra crown. Bring your Doctor & Allie if you possibly can & any of your other friends if you cannot possibly help it. We will have a season of unmeasured bliss & I am stupid with the whole prospect
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[3]
I spoke to Mr Hutchings about that section of Sequoia & he said that he knew nothing whatever about the matter which statement is doubtless entirely correct I than wrote to Galen Clark & he informed me that a section fourteen feet in length by about fifteen or twenty in dia' was cut from the [fresnor?] grove last year & hauled to Stockton at an expense of about $2500,00. The Fresnor grove can be reached by wagon & a section procured at less expense than from the Mariposa or [Calveras?] groves Of the section taken from the F' grove last season, only the bark & a small portion of the wood was taken, in small numbered sections like st[illegible]es
[4]
The Libby party left the valley Tuesday morning I was sorry to see them go so soon I liked most of the party, especially Mrs & Mr Libby & perhaps Mrs Hoit & Miss Burmingham Tell Libby that I am very sorry that I did not run away from the mill & go with them to Eagle point & Mt Hoffman. I seldom see Mrs. Hutchings now but I know that she would like to go with us. I fear she will not get away. She spends her spare moments in painting Yosemite flowers. I shall be nervously anxious about our ramble untill I verily behold you here Remember me to the doctor & Allie & all my friends. I wish Le Conte could come
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Location
[Yosemite]
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 13 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from [John Muir] to Mrs. [Jeanne C. ] Carr, [1871] Jun 22." (1871). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1381.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1381
Resource Identifier
muir02_0463-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0463
Copyright Status
Copyrighted
Copyright Statement
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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
