Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
[Jeanne C.] Carr
Transcription
Clarks Station Sep 13th [1873]
Dear Mrs Carr: We have just arrived from the Valley & are now fairly off for the ice in the highest & broadest of the Sierras. Our party consists of the blessed Doctor & Billy Sims Artist & I I am so glad that the Doctor will have company when I am among the summits. We hoped to have secured Clark also a companion for me among the peaks & snow, but Alack I [underlined: must] go alone. Well, I will not complain a word for I shall be overpaid a thousand thousand fold. I can give you no measured idea of the time of our reaching Tahoe but I will write always on coming to stations if such there be in the rocks or sage
where letters are written. I was surprised last evening by receiving an envelope inclosing this letter of yours & a line requesting me to read & remail it. I sealed it without reading it thinking that it would be better for you to read it first Knowing that you could easily bring it to Tahoe if you wished me to see it. Now for Gods glorious mountains I will miss you, yet you will more than half go. It is only now that I feel that I am taking taking leave of you [underlined: Farewell]
Love to all —
00669
Location
Clark's Station, [Calif]
Circa Date
[1873] Sep 13
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 17 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from [John Muir] to [Jeanne C.] Carr, [1873] Sep 13." (1873). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1537.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1537
Resource Identifier
muir02_1183-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 1183
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
