Creator

John Muir

Creator

John Muir

Recipient

[Ralph Waldo] Emerson

Transcription

John H Muir's letter to R. W. E. The letter of March 26th is a remarkable account of an Earthquake then going on in the Valley [ZWZ?] Yosemite Valley April 3d, 72Dear Emerson, Your two books came to my cabin this afternoon, Two big brown loaves, I have not seem them before. How rich I am becoming. This huge accumulation of Earthquakes & all this bread. When you were here you excited my attention to a Sweedenborgian book wh you said you had sent to Carbyle & would send to me. it never came there you sent it? Or have you forgotten it. Our Earthquake storm is still living we have many shocks every

day [this deleted] yielding rich opportunity to analyse the different groups of motions of wh each "shock" is composed. Cordially yrs John MuirDear Soul. Holy mountain Spirtis compel me to say you another Come. You will not he deaved with theories, nor aimed nor dragged about. You will drift like a winged seed transparent to every light. The mountains will melt that you may drink them. They will thin to sky that you may breathe them Fountain beauty will go among your tissues as light goes in glass. You will home in holy light Holy Light will home in you.

Location

Yosemite Valley

Date Original

1872 Apr 3

Source

Original letter dimensions unknown.

Resource Identifier

muir02_0763-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 02, Image 0763

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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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

The Houghton Library, Harvard University. 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

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