Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Mrs. [Jeanne C.] Carr
Transcription
[in margin: #64] [letterhead:] Pen Sentinel Hotel A. C. BLACK, Proprietor.
Yo Semite Valley July 6th 187[2]
Dear Mrs Carr.
Yours of Tuesday eve telling of our Doggetts & Ned & Merrill Moores, has come. so has the lamp & book I Have not yet tried the lamp but it is splendid in shape & shines grand as gold. The Lyell is just what I wanted I think that your measure of the Doggetts is exactly right, as good as civilized people can be They have grown to the top of town culture & have sent out some shoots half- gropingly into the spirit sky. I am very glad to know that Ned is growing strong, perhaps we may South America together yet. I hope to see you come to your own of mountain fountains soon Perhaps Mrs Hutchings may go with us. You live so fully in my own life that I cannot realize that I have not yet seen you here, a year or two of waiting seems nothing Possibly I may be down on your
coast this fall or next. for I want to see what relations the coast & coast mtns have to the Sierras. Also I want to go N & S along this range, & run among the basins & rangers Eastward. My subject is expanding at a most unfollowable pace. I could write something with data already harvested but I am not satisfied I have just returned from Hetch Hetchy with Mrs Moore. Of course we had a glory & a fun - the two articles in about parallel columns of equal size. Meadows grassed & lilied head high, spangled river reaches, & currentless pools, cascades countless & unpaintable in form & whiteness groves that heaven all the valley you were with us in all our joy & you will come again. I am a little weary & half incline to tru[illegible]tism from mobs however blessed in some unfindable grove I start in a few minutes for Clouds Rest with Mr & Mrs Moore. I am ever your friend, Muir My love to the Dr & all the boys I hope for Merrill daily
[in margin: I like Mrs Moore & Mr firstrate]
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Location
New Sentinel Hotel Yo Semite Valley
Circa Date
187[2] Jul 6
Source
Original letter dimensions: 25.5 x 21 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Mrs. [Jeanne C.] Carr, 187[2] Jul 6." (1872). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1460.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1460
Resource Identifier
muir02_0841-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0841
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
