Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[J. B.] Mc Chesney
Transcription
[Original letter returned to Mrs. J. B. McChesney]
To J. B. McChesney
Yosemite Valley,
Dec. 20th, 1872.
My dear McChesney:
Among all the souls which shine upon my eye up from that dim and distant Oakland none is of purer ray than your own, and living or dying, in this land or in that, I shall never cease to thank God for friends like you.
My excursion down into that befogged jungle of human plants in which you manage to live and love forms a far more notable chapter in my personal history than any of you can comprehend, and now that I am warm again, safe nestled in mountain ether, I seem to have returned to life from a strange and half-remembered death.
Here many a thought comes crowding to my page, but I must hush them back, for they would overcrowd a thousand letters. So drawing a long sigh I must content myself with saying'Thank you. for all your kindness, and leave you to eat the good brown bread of your little hills,and whatsoever of God you can find there)until your angel shall again guide you to the clean fountains of the Sierras.
Remember me to all your family and to Kelsey and any of my friends you chance to see. Miss Brigham, Sill, and all the rest. Kiss your Alioe some extra times for me. She is the sweetest flake of childhood I found in all your town, and she comes back to me in form and voice and in touch too, with most living vividness.
Farewell. I am,
Ever your friend,
John Muir
Location
Yosemite Valley
Date Original
1872 Dec 20
Source
Original letter dimensions: 33 x 21.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [J. B.] Mc Chesney, 1872 Dec 20." (1872). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1502.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1502
Resource Identifier
muir02_1025-trans.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 1025
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
