Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Jeanne C.] Carr
Transcription
00628
[1872]
Yosemite Oct 14th
Dear Mrs Carr, I cannot hear from you these are some souls perhaps that are never tired that can go steadily glad, always tuneful & songful like mountain water, not so weary hungry me This second time I come from the rocks for fresh supplies of the two breads but I find but one. I cannot hear from you. My last weeks were spent among the canons of the Hoffman range & the Cathedral Peak group E, of lake Tenaya. All gloriously rich in the written truths wh I am seeking I will now go to the wide rayed tributaries of Illilouette. & to Pohono, After wh I will mope about among the rim canons & rock forms of the valley as the weather permits
Perhaps I have not yet answered all of your last long pages, Here is a quotation from Tyndale con- cerning the nature & origin of his intense mountain enjoyments. He searches far & near for a theory of his delight in the mountains, going among the accidents of his own boyhood & those of his remotest fathers, but surely this must be all wrong & instead of groping away backwards among the various grades of grandfathers he should explore the most primary properties of man Perhaps we owe "the pleasurable emotions wh fine landscape makes in us" to a cause as radical as that wh makes a magnet pulse to the two poles I think that one of the [underlined: properties] of that compound wh we call man is that when exposed to the rays of mountain beauty it glows [underlined: with joy]. I don't know who of all my ancestry are to blame
Location
Yosemite
Circa Date
[1872] Oct 14
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20 x 26 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Jeanne C.] Carr, [1872] Oct 14." (1872). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1490.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1490
Resource Identifier
muir02_0969-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0969
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
