Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Catharine] Merrill
Transcription
[Original letter returned to Miss M. Merrill].
Yosemite Valley,
Sep. 27th, 1872.
Dear Miss Merrill:
Your note of Sep. 1st was received last eve on our return from Hetch Hetchy Valley and the Canyon of the Tuolumne above. Also M[errill] and I have each received a letter from Mrs. Moores dated Sep. 9th. I am glad you all feel that it is best for Merrill that he is in our Sierras, and that Mrs. Moores’ health is so improved. I shall continue to hope that I shall yet meet you all here to drink the beauty that wells from a thousand fountains free and available to all the pure in heart.
We have had a most glorious time in the great Tuolumne canyon, wh[ich] is a Yosemite valley where Godful sublimity more abounds than in this. We have been absent on this excursion 9 days. I am not satisfied, and will set out again tomorrow alone for a week or two. This will be too dangerous for M[errill]’s inexperienced limbs, therefore I shall have to leave him here.
I am glad you found abundance of beauty in the sea and that has so enriched your life.
Ever your friend,
JOHN MUIR
Location
Yosemite Valley
Date Original
1872 Sep 27
Source
Original letter dimensions: 33 x 21.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Catharine] Merrill, 1872 Sep 27." (1872). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1480.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1480
Resource Identifier
muir02_0919-trans.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0919
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
