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.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from [John Muir] to [Ralph Waldo Emerson], [18]72 Jan 10." (1872). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1417.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1417
Resource Identifier
muir02_0645-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0645
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
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
