Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Ezra and Jeanne] Carr
Transcription
[1873]
#35 Tahoe City Nov 3d ——
My dear friends Mr & Mrs Carr I received the news of you terrible bereavement a few moments ago & can only say that you have my hearts sympathy & prayer that our Father may sustain & soothe you. ———————
Dr. Kellogg & Billy simms left me a week ago at Mono going directly to Yosemite. I reached this Queen of lakes two days ago & rode down around the shore on the east side – will continue on around
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nor see you, yet you shared all of my highest pleasures as sauntered through the piney woods pausing countless times to absorb the blue glimpse of the lake all so heavenly clean – so terrestrial yet so openly spiritual. I wish my dear dear friends that you could share this divine day with me here. The soul of Indian summer is brooding this blue water & it enters ones being as nothing else does. Tahoe is surely not one but many as I curve around its heads & bays & look far out at its level sky fairly tinted & fading in pensive air I am reminded of all the mountain lakes I ever knew as if this were a kind of water heaven to wh
[in margin: [something cut off]pers that your Berkley house was not likely to be built [something cut off] my mind to winter among Yosemite rocks again but if [something cut off]ed better winter with you say so in another letter directed to the Valley & I will come Ever yrs John Muir]
[Original letter in mounted set of letters to Mrs. car,# 35]
Tahoe City, Nov. 3d, [1873].
My dear friends Mr. and Mrs. Carr:
I received the news of your terrible bereavement a few moments ago, and can only say that you have my heart's sympathy and prayer that our Father may sustain and soo the you.
Dr. Kellogg and Billy Simms left me a week [illegible] 28? ago at Mono, going directly to Yosemite. I reached this Queen of lakes two days ago, and rode down around the shore on the east side. Will continue on around...
[portion of page cut off]
nor see you. Yet you shared all of my highest pleasures as I sauntered through the piney woods pausing countless times to absorb the blue glimpses of the lake, all so heavenly clean, so terrestrial, yet so openly spiritual. I wish, my dear, dear friends, that you could share this divine day with me here. The soul of Indian summer is brooding this blue water, and it enters one's being as nothing else does. Tahoe is surely not one but many. As I curve around its heads and bays and look far out on its level sky fairily tinted and fading in pensive air I am reminded of all the mountain lakes I ever knew as if this were a kind of water heaven to which they all had come
[portion of page cut, and following lines written across the sheet, lost portions being indicated]
...pers that your Berkeley house was not likely to be built
...my mind to winter among yosemite rocks again, but if
...ed better winter with you, say so in another letter directed to the Valley and I will come.
Ever yours,
John Muir.
[Date supplied from letter of Oct. 16, 1873].
Location
Tahoe City
Circa Date
[1873] Nov 3
Source
Original letter dimensions: 17 x 19.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Ezra and Jeanne] Carr, [1873] Nov 3." (1873). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1544.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1544
Resource Identifier
muir02_1217-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 1217
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
3 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
