Creator

John Muir

Creator

[John Muir]

Recipient

[Ralph Waldo Emerson]

Transcription

Jan. 10th 72

Here is a a sheaflet of winter wheat ripe & mellow from fields of snow - A plume of Libocedrus golden with starninate cones. It will give you a tingle of beauty & I will be glad Would that you were here to sing this glorious Yosemite snow bound - to bathe in these fountain lights - to warm in these infountain loves what prayers push my Mary lo[illegible] call you hear to beckon you but I must choke them all back hush them all back for the snowbloom is deep on the mtns 09417

Location

[Yosemite]

Source

Original letter dimensions: 12.5 x 11.5 cm.

Resource Identifier

muir02_0645-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 02, Image 0645

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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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

1 page

Keywords

Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters

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