Creator
Abba G. Woolson
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
[4]
Well, you will not be left to their companionship long. A few weeks will bring to your haunts the usual number of [illegible] resolved upon "doing" the Valley; and before their stupid your Nevada will fling down her laces, and in their stupid [eat?] Yo Semite will [illegible] her [illegible], and the Vernal will print her wavering luminous rainbows at their feet. But, though they shall tread in the chamber of the gods, the gods shall keep the full glories of their [inner?] c[illegible] sacred from their gaze. Let us know what further book we can send you; and whenever you are too [illegible] to write f[illegible] sha[illegible]deis for the p[illegible] [illegible] us a few lines to let us know how it fares with you. Very Truly Your Friend. Abba G. Molson. [in margin: 67] 00653
[1]
Boston [A Chauncy St.?] Mch. 23./73.
Dear Mr. Muir,
Although you have not deigned to take any notice of a long letter which I dispatched to you last Fall, I am deposed to be magnauim out and forgiving toward one who has to many noble and engrossing objects to occupy his thoughts. I am sure that if I went to abide under the shadow of El Capitan, with the South Dome and Yo Semite Fall before my eyes, all sounds from the outer world which might creep over the rocky lo[illegible] that enclosed me would seem too far-away and feeble to demand any immediate attention. It is then that I explain your silence, and so long as you will write to the world at large such refreshing letter as that we read the other evening in our own "Boston Lanscript" I will postpone any private and individual [claims?] which I might have, and be content with my share of the general communication.
Yosemite Dec 6th 69
Dear friend Mrs Carr
I am feasting in the Lords Mountain house & what pen may write my blessings I am going to dwell here all winter magnificently "snowbound" just think of the grandeur of mountain winter in Yo-Semite would that you could enjoy it also I read your word of pencil upon the bridge below the Nevada & I thank you for it most devoutly No one nor all of the Lords blessings can enable me to exist without friends & I know that you are a friend indeed. There is no snow in the valley, the ground is covered with the brown & yellow leaves of the oak & maple & their crisping & rustling make one think of the groves of Madison. I have been wandering about
Location
Boston
Date Original
1873 Mar 23
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 25 cm.
Recommended Citation
Woolson, Abba G., "Letter from Abba G. Woolson to John Muir, 1873 Mar 23." (1873). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1518.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1518
Resource Identifier
muir02_1091-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 1091
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
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
