Creator
John Muir
Recipient
David G[ilrye Muir]
Transcription
[1872] Yosemite Valley Feb 20th
Dear brother David, G, How are you living I have not heard from you all winter We have been pretty closely blockaded with snow & I learn that the Cars have ceased running on the transcontinental R. R.. Although well snowbound we have had a pretty mild winter & spring is already near. the willows are putting forth their catkins & the alders by the river bank are tasseled with ripe Aments Frogs sing lustily in the shallows of the meadow & Blue birds & Robins & thrushes sing also but we will have many a snowy day before summer is fairly established. We had a grand flood in Dec when 100 falls averaging near 2500 feet in height sang together Think of that I wrote a description of it wh may appear in some of the magazines therefore I will not attempt a second description here Did my Glacier Article in the N.Y. Tribune of Dec 9th make you any wiser. I have written a few other light articles for the Tribune but I hardly think that any of them have been able to pass the snowed mountains. I will be busy as soon as the snow leaves our surrounding Mtn''s measuring heights & depts. sketching describing etc for my "Glaciers"
send my kindest regards to Katie & your younglings & to Maggie & John Reid If you can obtain a few copies of those articles of mine I wish you would clip them out & send them in a letter to me Let me hear from you soon I am every yours, John
Yosemite No date
00573
Location
Yosemite Valley
Circa Date
[1872] Feb 20
Source
Original letter dimensions: 25.5 x 20 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to David G[ilrye Muir], [1872] Feb 20." (1872). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1429.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1429
Resource Identifier
muir02_0701-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0701
Collection Identifier
Online finding aid for the microform version of the John Muir Correspondence http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0w1031nc
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
