Creator
Chas. Warren Stoddard
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
[in margin: Stoddard Chris W. Stoddard]
[underlined: John Muir.]
00687
Rome the [Eternal?] 8th July 74.
Dear [illegible]-man.
Rome is running rivers of good honest [illegible] just now, would you like it, think you? I’d give much to see you [footing?] it amongst these wearysom ruins; how ugly they are, [illegible] the Old City its self is a kind of respectable bore. Rome is the Sierras! There is all the difference between them that there is between bone dust and young granite. There is no pine – spiced air here: our lungs are full of infinitely small relics of the past; the Coliseum and
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the [illegible] combs
Location
Rome the Eternal [Italy]
Date Original
1874 Jul 8
Source
Original letter dimensions: 21.5 x 26 cm.
Recommended Citation
Stoddard, Charles Warren, "Letter from Chas. Warren Stoddard to John Muir, 1874 Jul 8." (1874). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 280.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/280
Resource Identifier
muir03_0116-md-1.pdf
File Identifier
Reel 03, Image 0115
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
Copyright status unknown
Copyright Statement
Some letters written to John Muir may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
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.
Pages
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
