Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
Sarah [Muir Galloway]
Transcription
Oakland Jan 16th 1875
My dear Sister Sarah I have just returned from a long train of excursions in the Sierras & find yours & many other letters waiting, all that accumulated for five months I spent my holidays on the Yuba & Feather rivers exploring. I have of course worked hard & enjoyed hard. Ascending Mtns crossing Canons. [ Rambling?] ceaseless =ly over hill & dale plain, & lava bed I thought of you all gathered with your little ones enjoying the sweet & simple pleasures that belong to your lives & loves. I have not yet in all my wanderings found a single person so free as myself. Yet I am bound by my studies & the laws of my own life. At times I feel as if driven with whips, & ridden upon, when in the
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woods I sit at times for hours watching birds or squirrels or looking down into the faces of flowers without suffering any feeling of haste Yet I am swept onward in a general current that bears on irresistibly When therefore I shall be allowed to float homeward I [underlined: dinna dinna] k[illegible] but I hope, The world as well as the M’tn’s is good to me & my studies flow on in a wider & wider current by the incoming of many a noble tributary. Probably if I were living amongst you all you would follow me in my scientific work but as it is you will do so imperfectly However when I visit you will all have to submit to numerous lectures. You enquire about Merrill. he is attending the North Western University in Indianapolis, I was so fortunate a week ago as to meet a lady from Indianapolis intimately acquainted with the Merrill family & I enjoyed a two days conversation with her
[in margin: Give my love to David & to Mrs. Galloway & all your little ones & rememember as ever lovingly your brother John [— Muir]]
Location
Oakland [Calif.]
Date Original
1875 Jan 16
Source
Original letter dimensions: 21 x 17 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from [John Muir] to Sarah [Muir Galloway], 1875 Jan 16." (1875). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 306.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/306
Resource Identifier
muir03_0262-md-1.pdf
File Identifier
Reel 03, Image 0261
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
