Creator

John Muir

Creator

John Muir

Recipient

[James] Cross

Transcription

[illegible] 1981 Yosemite Valley Dec 24th 71

Dear Cross. I have just written a line to Maxwell & of course you are in lively remember- ance as one third of the pleasant [illegible] of the Hoffman excursion. I suppose that you are now bravely housed in Merrie England, & in looking back upon the many broad fields of terrestrial grandeur & beauty, you behold our Yosemite sharply defined, peerless & companionless, would that you might see our mountains now, they are glorious with the generous snows of four days storm, every dome & spire, & every nitch & tablet, has its share of the pure jewels of winter storm. Since you were here I have rambled the upper mtns incessantly untill driven down by deep snows, I am engaged in the study of the ancient glacial system of this region, & am no longer bound to Hutchings or his mill, I will likely go on with my explorations with reference to the dead Yosemite ice rivers for several years & may write a mono- gram for the Boston Academy of Sciences. I was in the great Tuolumne canon a short time ago of wh Hetch Hetchy valley forms a part the Hetch Hetchy occupies exactly the same pos- ition upon the Tuolumne, that the Yosemite does upon the Merced, & both vallies were formed at the same period & by the same forces, & of course

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their physical characters are closely similar I should enjoy a talk with you Letters are small contrivances of but little value in scientific discussions, though they answer well enough for the conveyance of friendly greetings. I send you an outline sketch of our Hoffman Camp, wh doubtless will touch a happy memory. May the mountain beauty wh you then absorbed remain pictured in you forever, & enrich the whole fabric of your life.

[drawing overtop some writing] Blacks be here all lovely, there valley with whom ought, I would Farewell cordially yrs Muir

valley California (Via Big Oak Flat)

A trail is being made up Indian Canon & another up the face of the mountain to glacier point & a third one is in contemplation for Eagle point via the rigged & tangled canon wh Maxwell said would "puzzle the saints" & wh you called "The Valley"!! #7333 00210

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their physical characters are closely similar I should enjoy a talk with you Letters are small contrivances of but little value in scientific discussions, though they answer well enough for the conveyance of friendly greetings. I send you an outline sketch of our Hoffman Camp, wh doubtless will touch a happy memory. May the mountain beauty wh you then absorbed remain pictured in you forever, & enrich the whole fabric of your life.

[drawing overtop some writing] Blacks be here all lovely, there valley with whom ought, I would Farewell cordially yrs Muir

valley California (Via Big Oak Flat)

A trail is being made up Indian Canon & another up the face of the mountain to glacier point & a third one is in contemplation for Eagle point via the rigged & tangled canon wh Maxwell said would "puzzle the saints" & wh you called "The Valley"!! #7333 00210

Location

Yosemite Valley

Date Original

1871 Dec 4

Source

Original letter dimensions: 25.5 x 20 cm.

Resource Identifier

muir02_0601-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 02, Image 0601

Collection Identifier

Online finding aid for the microform version of the John Muir Correspondence http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0w1031nc

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

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