Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Jeanne C.] Carr
Transcription
[1873] Yosemite Valley March 30th [in margin:#84]
Dear Mrs Carr,
Your two last are rec'd. The pk'g of letters were picked up by a man in the valley. There was none for this. I have Hetch Hetchy about ready. I did not intend that Tenaya ramble for publication but you know what is better. I mean to write & send all kinds of game to you with hides & feathers one. for if I wait untill all become one it may be to long As for LeContes glaciers they will not hurt mine, but hereafter I will say my thoughts to the public in any kind of words I chance to command, for I am sure they will be better expressed in this way than in any Second hand hash however able
[in margin: 00654] Oftentimes when I am free in the wilds, I discover some rare beauty in lake or c[illegible] or mountain form, & instantly seek to sketch it with my pencil but the drawing is always enormously unlike the reality, So also in word sketches of the same beauties that are So living so loving So filled with warm God there is the same infinite short-coming, My few hard words make but a skeleton fleshless heartless & when you read [deleted: them], the dead bony words rattle in ones teeth, Yet I will not the less endeavor to do my poor best, believing that even these dead bone heaps called articles will occasionally contain hints to some living souls who know how to find them, I have not rec'd Dr Stebbins letter give him & all my friends love from me I sent Harry Edwards the butterflies I had lost. Did he get them Farewell dear dear Spiritual Mother. Heaven repay your everlasting love John Muir
Location
Yosemite Valley
Circa Date
[1873] Mar 30
Source
Original letter dimensions: 21 x 13 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Jeanne C.] Carr, [1873] Mar 30." (1873). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1519.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1519
Resource Identifier
muir02_1095-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 1095
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
