Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
Helen [Muir]
Transcription
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I am enjoying a fine rest. I have "the blue room" in this charming home & it has the daintiest linen & embroidery I ever saw. The bed is so soft & fine I like to lie awake to enjoy it instead of sleeping a servant brings me a cup of coffee before I rise. This morning when I was sipping coffee in bed, a red squirrel looking in the window at me from
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a big tulip tree & seemed to be saying as he watched me "Oh John Muir! Camping tramping treeclimbing scrambler! Churr, Churr why have you left us, chip churr who would have thought it
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[letterhead]
November 4. 1898
My darling Helen,
This is a fine calm thoughtful morning, bracing and sparkling, just the least touch of hoarfrost quickly melting where the sunbeams, streaming through between the trees, fall in yellow plashes and lances on the lawns. Every now and then a red or yellow leaf comes swirling down, though there is not the slightest breeze. Most of the hickories are leafless now, but the big buds on the
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ends of the twigs are full of baby leaves and flowers that are already planning and thinking about next summer. Many of the maples, too, and the dogwoods are showing leafless branches; but many along the sheltered ravines are still rejoicing in all their glory of color, and look like gigantic goldenrods. God’s forests, my dear, are among the grandest of terrestrial things that you may look forward to.
I have not heard from Prof Sargent since he left New York a week ago, and so I don’t know whether he is ready to go to Florida, but I’ll hear soon, and then I’ll know nearly the time I’ll get home. Anyhow, it won’t be long.
Location
Wing and Wing, Garrison-on-Hudson [N.Y.]
Date Original
1898 Nov 4
Source
Original letter dimensions: 18 x 23 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from [John Muir] to Helen [Muir], 1898 Nov 4." (1898). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2298.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2298
Resource Identifier
muir10_0443-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 10, Image 0443
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
