Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Jeanne C.] Carr
Transcription
[1]
Lissons Station Dec 9th 1874
Dear Mrs Carr
Coming in for a sleep & rest I was glad to receive your card. I seem to be more than married to Icy Shasta One yellow [ mellow?] morning six days ago when Shastas snows were looming & blooming I stept’ outside the barroom door to gaze, & was instantly drawn up over the meadows, over the forests, to the main Shasta glacier in one rushing [ cosmetic?] whizz then swooping to Shasta Valley whirled off around the base like a satellite of the grand icy Sun. I have just completed my first revolution Length of orbit 100 miles-, Time one Shasta day
[2]
For two days & a half I had nothing in the way of food yet suffered nothing & was finely nerved for the most delicate work of mountaineering both among crevasses & lava cliffs. Now I am sleeping & [underlined: eating] I found some geological facts that are perfectly glorious & botanical ones too. I wish I could make the public be kind to Keith & his paint & so you contemplate vines & oranges among the warm California angels, I wish you would all go a granging among oranges & bananas & all such blazing red hot fruits for you are a species of Hindoe sun fruit yourself. For me I like better the huckleberries of cool glacial bogs, & acid currants
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[3]
& benevolent rosy beaming apples & common Indian summer pump= =kins. I wish you could see the holy morning alpen glaer of Shasta Farewell. Ill be down into gray Oakland some time I am glad you are so essentially independent of those common place plotters that have so marred your peace Eat oranges & hear the larks & wait on the sun Ever Cordially John Muir
Love to all The letter you sent here is also received Emilys I will get bye & bye Love to Color Keith
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Location
Sissons Station, [Calif]
Date Original
1874 Dec 9
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20 x 25 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Jeanne C.] Carr, 1874 Dec 9." (1874). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 299.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/299
Resource Identifier
muir03_0228-md-1.pdf
File Identifier
Reel 03, Image 0227
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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, click here to view the Holt-Atherton Special Collections policies.
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
