Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Jeanne C.] Carr
Transcription
Clarks Sep 15th — [1873]
Dear Mrs Carr, By waiting a day have got dear Galen to go. The horses are ready saddled — will be off in a few minutes Fancy Billy Paint & the Doctor alone & Clark & I backing steps in the [underlined: high ice] Our arms are the butterfly net with wh the doctor drives the mule – a six shooter & rifle for game & Indians (Pah Utes) Billy is joyful & innocent as ever & more so – he says. “That was a good sketch of Mr Carr Its got form to it & she makes trees firstrate” “My first wasn’t as good”. He has been here a day or two retouching some seven paintings that he sold some time ago. He says “I put on some white paint for high lights like Bursted & Hill but Sam didn’t like it, & I (the purchaser)
had to take them out. Clark takes pencil & sketch book for the first time. Billy says “Ill learn him, He can watch me” My dear friend, Farewell Ere many days we will walk the meadowy streets of many a mountain heaven [deleted: illegible] I see the alpinglore inspiring their peaks & domes & bestowing yet more of Autumn purple & god Lo All Farewell
John Muir ————
Rember me to Mrs Moore & Keith ——————————
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Location
Clark's [Station, Calif]
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 17 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Jeanne C.] Carr, [1873] Sep 15." (1873). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1538.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1538
Resource Identifier
muir02_1187-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 1187
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
