Creator
S.S. Forbes
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
[4]
Mr Forbes has just started for Fayal to bring my daughter home - We are having the driest of springs here - & no mountain streams near to draw from as they have in California - there is much in Mr Emersons' writings to admire, yet in him I always feel the want of the genial sympathy with human every day life - if he was
the edge of the sun - they looked about so high - but were about 10,000 miles high -
When you look at the falls, greet them for me -
[1]
Milton Hill 29th April 1872
My dear Mr Muir
The box of specimens of wood has come safely through your fiend - they are what I wanted - thank you very much - the bulbs were injured before I got them, but the seeds are now beginning to come up - I have also one sequoia
musical perhaps he would have a touch of Robbie Burns, which united with his purity of thought would be fine - but each as his own individuality
[2]
tree up - it is about an inch high - before it is 30 ft through the trunk, there will be time for many changes in [it?] on our little planet. I had read an account of the earthquake in the Yosemite. I should like to have felt it - but for safety would rather have been out of it - The accounts of the earthquakes
& each must work that out for himself as best he may -
[3]
& eruptions of Vesuvius are very interesting - that sort of commotion seems to be in various parts of the earth just now. I saw Prof Gray a short time since, he spoke as if he was going to the Yosemite - it will be interesting to you to go about there with him. I also hope you will see Prof Agasis & party. I do not know how soon he will be there -
I went to the observatory in Cambridge the other day & saw flames on
[2]
tree up - it is about an inch high - before it is 30 ft through the trunk, there will be time for many changes in [it?] on our little planet. I had read an account of the earthquake in the Yosemite. I should like to have felt it - but for safety would rather have been out of it - The accounts of the earthquakes
& each must work that out for himself as best he may -
[3]
& eruptions of Vesuvius are very interesting - that sort of commotion seems to be in various parts of the earth just now. I saw Prof Gray a short time since, he spoke as if he was going to the Yosemite - it will be interesting to you to go about there with him. I also hope you will see Prof Agasis & party. I do not know how soon he will be there -
I went to the observatory in Cambridge the other day & saw flames on
Copy to:-
Mr. W. Cameron Forbes.
Bostone
Milton Hill,
29th April, 1872.
My dear Mr. Muir:
The box of specimens of wood has come safely through your friend. They are what I wanted - thank you very much. The bulbs were injured before I got them, but the seeds are now beginning to come up. I have also one sequoia tree up - it is about an inch high. Before it is 30 ft. through the trunk, there will be time for many changes in and on our little planet.
I had read an account of the earthquake in the Yosemite. I should like to have felt it, but for safety would rather have been out of it. The accounts of the earthquakes and eruptions of Vesuvius are very interesting - that sort of commotion seems to be in various parts of the earth just now.
I saw Prof. Gray a short time since. He spoke as if he was going to the Yosemite. It will be interesting to you to go about there with him. I also hope you will see Prof. Agassiz and party. I do not know how soon he will be there.
Mr. Forbes has just started for Fayal, to bring my daughter home. We are having the driest of springs here, and no mountain streams near to draw from as they have in California.
There is much in Mr. Emerson's writings to admire, yet in him I always feel the want of the genial sympathy with human everyday life - if he was musical perhaps he would have a touch of Robbie Burns, which united with his purity of thought would be fine -- but each has his own individuality, and each must work that out for himself as best he may.
Very truly yours,
S. S. Forbes
I went to the observatory in Cambridge the other day and saw flames on the edge of the sun - they looked about so high but were about 10,000 miles high.
[On folder Muir wrote, "Mrs. Forbes of Emerson's party in Yo."]
Location
Milton Hill, [Mass]
Date Original
1872 Apr 29
Source
Original letter dimensions: 15 x 23.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Forbes, S. S., "Letter from S.S. Forbes to John Muir, 1872 Apr 29." (1872). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1452.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1452
Resource Identifier
muir02_0813-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0813
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
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Owning Institution
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Pages
3 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
