Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
Sarah [Muir Galloway]
Transcription
Yosemite Valley Sep’ 3d 1843
Dear Sister Sarah, I have just returned from the longest & hardest trip I have ever made in the mtns., having been gone over five weeks. I am weary but resting fast, Sleepy but sleeping deep & fast, hungry but eating much – For two weeks I explored the glaciers of the summits east of here, sleeping among the snowy mtns without blankets & with but little to eat on account of its being so inaccess- ible. After my icy experiences it seems strange to be down here in so warm & flowery a climate I will soon be off again determined to use all the season in prosecuting my researches — will go next to Kings river a hundred miles south, then to Lake Tahoe & adjacent mtns. & in winter work in Oakland with my pen
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The Scotch are slow but some day I will have the results of my mountain studies in a form in wh you all will be able to read & judge of them. In the mean time I write occaisonally for the Overland Monthly but neither these magazine articles nor my first book will form any finished part of the scientific contribution that I hope to make. Here is clipping that you will like to read please return it when you are done with it The mountains are calling & I must go & I will work on while I can, studying incessantly. My love to you all, David & the children & Mrs Galloway who though shut out from sunshine yet dwells in Light I will write again when I return from Kings River Canon. The leaf sent me from China is for Cecelia Farewell with love everlasting
Location
Yosemite Valley
Date Original
1873 Sep 3
Source
Original letter dimensions: 21 x 13 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from [John Muir] to Sarah [Muir Galloway], 1873 Sep 3." (1873). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1535.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1535
Resource Identifier
muir02_1175-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 1175
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
University of the Pacific Library Holt-Atherton Special Collections. 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
