Creator
Jeanne C. Carr
Recipient
[John Muir]
Transcription
[Fragment of letter of Mrs, Carr, probably October, 1872 ].
[com]missioners? I should like you to have absolute control of some place in that region where the elect might resort in the evil times coming when the Valley will be thronged with the baser sort. Inform yourself of-everything pertinent to this subject.
I shall try to see Bierstadt in a day or two. I've a notion that he means to paint some winter landscape in the mountains.
Went to see Dr. Kellogg Saturday. Such a house as I found him in -- just like the inside of a haystack. We will have a day together, somewhere. I told him I wanted him to go to the valley with us -- he said he could not go this year -- has never been; has an arrangement to live one season there with Duncan.
Jos. LeConte lunched with me and read your letter. Said he was about persuaded to relinquish the Columbia and go to you. I wish he had and we had started the next day. We talked an hour about the discovery, appreciated it, and your rapture, and throbbed in tune. Wait, my friend, until you stand in the Cordilleras and Alps and see how the handwriting all corresponds, and then your anthem shall be sung.
Have a letter from South America to-day, but not from our dear boy. I enclose Mrs.- Waterston's last — you see how true the spiritual laws are, and so we will love God and one another, and go to sleep.
Your friend anear and afar,
Jeanne C. Carr.
[Probably this letter is the answer to Muir's letter of Oct.8,1872]
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Location
[Oakland, Calif]
Circa Date
[1872 Oct]
Source
Original letter dimensions: 33 x 21.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Carr, Jeanne C., "Letter from Jeanne C. Carr to [John Muir], [1872 Oct]." (1872). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1494.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1494
Resource Identifier
muir02_0985-trans.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0985
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
Copyright status unknown
Copyright Statement
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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.
Pages
1 page
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
