Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Asa] Gray
Transcription
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Hetchy Valley & Canon I discovered another grove of Torrey[illegible] & procured seeds from there also.. I shall attend to all of your botanical wants at once, packing as you direct.. The [Gulla percher?] cloth is received. I brought you down sections of Pinns flexilis & Abies Williamso[illegible] from foot of Lyell, but some woodsaving cook has burned them. I am glad to know that all of your visit to our Pacific gardens was so satisfactory to you. If you & Mrs Gray had only exposed yourselves to the plants & rocks & waters & glaciers of our glorious High Sierras I would have been
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content to have you return to your Cambridge classes & to all of the just & proper ding dong of civilization.
Agassiz comes not this year to Yosemite, Mrs Ag' writes me that they may visit us in indefinite year or two.
My experiments made on the glaciers of the summits back of Yosemite, fully prove that they are alive, & are living the whole life of glaciers as well as the most orthodox of the swiss alps
Give me work Doctor for I am heavy laden with obligations. - With kindest regards to mrs Gray & yourself. I am ever yours, John Muir
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A week ago I discovered a fine congregation of that Clouds Reef Primula on one of the passes of the Hoffman range
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Yosemite Valley Oct 10th 1872.
Dear Gray
Your letter & notes of the 11th 13th 20th & 21st Sep' were received yesterday on my return from an excursion of two weeks in the great Tuolumne Canon & high Sierras. Cordial thanks Dr for your true & bulky kindness Your Botanical con- tributions sent in care of Mrs Carr, have also reached me. I have not forgotten your ferns etc I went twice down the canon for seeds of Torrega - once before they were fully ripe, fearing that the Indians & squirrels would eat them all. Also when I was exploring the Hetch
Location
Yosemite Valley
Date Original
1872 Oct 10
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Asa] Gray, 1872 Oct 10." (1872). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1488.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1488
Resource Identifier
muir02_0961-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0961
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
Wisconsin Historical Society. 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
