Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Sarah [Muir Galloway]
Transcription
[4]
I will work always as I do now. I have great toil & greater rewards I would like [illegible] to spend a week or two among you all, & so I will when the right time arrives. It seems as though I was living more apart from you than formerly. I suppose on account of the difference of our pursuit. The Yellow days of Oct are full of that infinite calm & repose that so inspires every receptive soul whether in the Indian summers of Wisconsin or in the untrodden gardens of Calafornia Mtns - Farewell with love to David & all the younglings Ever affectionately John Muir
[1]
Yosemite Oct 8th [1872]
Dear Sister Sarah
Your big woolly socks are safe in my possession & of course I am already thankful in all of my ten toes that tingled with anticipated comfort at the sight of [underlined: so much] warm wool. I got down last eve from the high Sierras - was out eleven days & in that time pushed through the hitherto un- explored Tuolumne Canon - Climbed three times to the top of Mt Hoffman & once to Mt Lyell. The Tuolumne Canon is a gorge twenty one miles long & from two to more than five thousand feet in depth full of the very grandest of rock forms & waterfalls & cascades of endless variety & size, it is in all respects a Yosemite.
[in margin: The Yosemite Poem you send, I read in the out [illegible] manuscript the Poem was hatched here last summer. Joaquin Muller has gone to London]
[2]
I have abundance of work of a kind that I like & I now see my life work. I am at work now as I presume you know, on mtn structure, & am constantly in the outside mtns excepting the one day in a dozen or so that I come to Yosemite for provisions. I have met a good many of the noted men of Science but am disappointed in not seeing Prof Agassiz He wrote me a very kind letter & very flattering He said to one of my friends in San Francisco that "Muir was studying to greater purpose & with greater results than any- one else had done" I find a great many friends & all seem to
[3]
expect so much that I must needs accomplish something if for them alone. I will set out again in a day or two for the summits & will deposit some provisions in a central place where I can harbor in case of a big snow storm. Then I will come here & hide in a garret untill spring, writing up field notes etc. I can do so little in a letter that I never try to give you any definite idea of the kind of [illegible] & probable results that receive my attention, but I will write something that may be published & then you will understand my life better There is no rest for me
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Location
Yosemite
Circa Date
[1872] Oct 8
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 25.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Sarah [Muir Galloway], [1872] Oct 8." (1872). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1487.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1487
Resource Identifier
muir02_0957-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0957
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
