Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
[Jeanne C.] Carr
Transcription
Yosemite Valley Apr 13th 1873
Dear Mrs Carr,
Indian Tom goes out the valley tomorrow, with this I send you “Hetch Hetchy” Last year I wrote a description of H Hetchy & sent it to Prof Runkle Not having heard of it since I thought it lost in some waste basket, but today I received a Boston letter stating that a Hetch H from my pen appeared in the Boston Transcript of about March 12, 73 wh may possibly be the article in question. If so this present H H will be found to contain a page or two of the same, but this is about three times as large, & all rewritten etc. That Tuolumne song of fine Cantos (“Nature loves the [in margin: (“fire] number may perhaps be better out. If
you think it unfit for the public Keep it to thyself. I never can Keep my pen perfectly sober when it gets into the bounce & hurra of Cascades, but it never has broken into rhyme before. Love to [underlined: all], & “Fare Ye well my ain Jean”
(The Kerchiefs hae come from Bentons, & a pkg’ of books from Daggett _________
[in margin: #86]
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Location
Yosemite Valley
Date Original
1873 Apr 13
Source
Original letter dimensions: 21 x 13 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from [John Muir] to [Jeanne C.] Carr, 1873 Apr 13." (1873). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1523.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1523
Resource Identifier
muir02_1115-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 1115
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
