Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Asa] Gray
Transcription
FOR REFERENCE USE ONLY Reproduced from the original in The Yale University Library Permission necessary for reproduction or publication
[Muir, John]
Yosemite Valley Sep 10th 1873
Dear Gray, Yours of Aug 4th recd. Thank you Our High Sierra Aquilegia [drawing] is usually pale rose or bluish purple in color changing to dull cream, yellow when dying, quite variable. The flowers are very delicate in texture & in color – almost transparent. Carulea is far too blue a name – chrysantha to yellow. Have you heard from the wee botrychinum you sent to Eaton. We found it on the head of the Merced R at elevation of 8,000. the dwarf & giant growing nearly together. On my way to the glaciers at the head of the San Joaquin. I was wildly delighted on meeting a big Anemone about the size of our dear Wisconsin & [illegible] with heads of silky achenia 1 ½ inches dia’. The withered [illegible] showed that the [flrs?]
must be at least 2 inches dia’ – the [illegible] [illegible[ are finely & sharply dissected. Mrs Carr, I find has carried off all the specimens I brought down to camp, & also all of the seed!!. I will write her to send you one. I will gather your seeds, Abis [illegible] & Torreya — Had a glorious six weeks of free mountainanity with Carr & Kellogg they botanizing, I glacerizing Had one lovely scramble of fourteen days among the black jagged peaks at the head of the Merced Tuolumne & San Joaquin Rivers, — bagged thirty four active glaciers, Dr Kellog & I are about to set out for the region about the heads of the South Fork of the San Joaquin & Kings & Kern Rivers. I pushing back among the glaciers that I know are there, K botanizing on lower ground we separating a week or so at a time . From head of Kern R we will cross over to Owens River Valley thence along
north past Mono to Lake Tahoe & yet northward untill snow falls. Thanks for biography of Sullivant, Farewell I hear the mtns calling. Ever cordially yrs John Muir
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Location
Yosemite Valley
Date Original
1873 Sep 10
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Asa] Gray, 1873 Sep 10." (1873). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1536.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1536
Resource Identifier
muir02_1179-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 1179
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
Yale University Library Manuscripts and Archives. 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
