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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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

University of the Pacific Library Holt-Atherton Special Collections. 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

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