Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Jeanne C.] Carr
Transcription
[Letterhead:] Pen Sentinel Hotel, A. C. BLACK, Proprietor.
Yo Semite Valley, May 31 1872
Dear Mrs Carr. Yours announcing the Joaquin & the Doggetts & more is here I care not when you come so that you come calm & timeful. I will try to compel myself down to you in August but these years & ages among snows & rocks have made me far more unfit for the usages of civilization than you can appreciate. My serve strings shrunk at the prospect even at this distance, But if by driving to that slimey town sea bottom I can touch Huxley & Tyndall & mount again with you to calm months in the Sierras I will draw a long breath & splash into your fearful muds I would rather have you in Sep & Oct than at any other time but a few weeks of this white water would be very glorious. Merrill Moores who was with me in Wis and at your Madison home will be here soon to spend a good big block of a while with me, why cant you let Allie join him?
[in margin: Tell Kellogg that there is [one?] here who will be ready to welcome him in all kinds of times & weathers, When he comes here, he will come to his own, "His are the mtns & the valleys his"]
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For the last week our valley has been a lake & my shanty is in flood But the walls about us are white this morning with snow wh has checked the free life of our torrents & the meadows will soon be walkable again. The snow fell last night & this morning The falls will sing loud & long this year the mountains are fat with thick snow that the sun will find hard to fry Your other letter telling of John & sheep came a few days ago You ought not to [illegible] gray yourself away among these ghaunt & morbid philanthropus, [Illegible] of [illegible] [illegible] house with unnearied kindness [illegible] [illegible] You most know her better When you come [illegible] [illegible] . The Doctor is killing himself with overwork, tell him to run away
A month here would be no loss to any of his works
Ever yrs John Muir
Location
Yosemite Valley
Date Original
1872 May 31
Source
Original letter dimensions: 25.5 x 21 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Jeanne C.] Carr, 1872 May 31." (1872). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1456.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1456
Resource Identifier
muir02_0829-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0829
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
