Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Louie [Strentzel Muir]
Transcription
Grand Hotel S.F.
July 11, 1889
Dear Louie, I was very glad to get your letter today for somehow I was getting anxious about your all as if instead of a week I had been gone a year & had nothing but lonesome silence all the time. You must see surely that I am getting literary for I have just finished writeing for the day & it is half past 12. Last eve went to bed at this time & got up at 6 & have written 20 pages today & feel proud that now I begin to see the end of this article that has so long been a black growling cloud in my sky. Some of the 20 pages was pretty good to I think. I'll copy a
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little of it & let you judge - Of course you say "go to bed," well never mind a little writing more or less for I'm literary now & the fountains flow - speaking of climate here I say "The Sound region has a fine fresh clean climate well washed both winter & summer with copious rains, & swept with winds & clouds from the mountains & the sea. Every hidden nook in the depths of the woods is searched & refreshed leaving no stagnant air. Beaver - meadows lake basins & low willowy bogs all are kept wholesome & sweet etc." (Again) "The outer sea margin is sublimely drenched & dashed
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with ocean brine, the spice of scent sweeping far inland in times of storm over the bending woods, the giant trees waving & chanting in hearty accord as if surely enjoying it all". Here's another bit- "The most charming days here are days of perfect calm when all the winds are holding their breath, & not a leaf stirs. Then the surface of the sound shines like a silver mirror over all its vast extent reflecting its lovely islands & shores, & long sheets of spangles flash & dance in the wake of every swimming sea-bird & boat, while the sun
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Location
Grand Hotel, S[an] F[rancisco], [Calif]
Date Original
1889 Jul 11
Source
Original letter dimensions: 28 x 21.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1889 Jul 11." (1889). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1836.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1836
Resource Identifier
muir06_0143-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 06, Image 0143
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
