Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Sarah [Muir Galloway]
Transcription
[Original letter in possession of Sarah Muir Galloway]
John Muir School, Scottie, mash.
Yosemite Valley.
July 16th, 1872.
Dear Sister Sarah:
Your bundle composed of socks and letters has arrived.for which I am much indebted. I had not seen the [n.y.] Tribune letter you sent. I want you to see all I write, good or bad. I may some time write regularly for some journal or other. My scientific friends are clamorous for glaciers, etc.
I have had a great day in meeting Dr. Asa Gray, the first botanist in the world. My Boston friends made him know me before he came, and I expect a grand time with him. While waiting for Gray this afternoon on the mountain side I climbed the Sentinel Rock, 3000 feet high. Here is an oak sprig from the top.
Merrill Moores came a couple of days ago to spend a few months with me. I am very happy, but have to see too many people for the successful prosecution of my studies.
Full moon lights all the groves and rocks and casts splendid masses of shade on meadow and wall. Visitors jar and noise, but Nature goes grandly and calmly over all confusion like winds over our domes...
Give all the children and Davie my cordial regards, and always remember me to Mrs. Galloway, who though blind yet sees incomparably more than most people.
I hope to see Agassiz this summer, and if I can get him away in to the outside mountains among the old glacier wombs alone. I shall have a glorious time...
Remember me, of course, to all the Muir genus and all who care for me. With unchanging brother love. Farewell.
J. Muir
Location
Yosemite Valley
Date Original
1872 Jul 16
Source
Original letter dimensions: 33 x 21.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Sarah [Muir Galloway], 1872 Jul 16." (1872). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1463.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1463
Resource Identifier
muir02_0851-trans.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0851
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
1 page
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
