Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
[Jeanne C.] Carr
Transcription
[Original letter in mounted set of letters to Mrs. Carr: #23]
To Mrs. Ezra S. Carr
Brownsville, Yuba Co.,
Jan. 19th, 1875.
My dear Mrs. Mother Carr:
Here are some of the dearest and bonniest of our Father's bairns - the little ones that so few care to see. I never saw such enthusiasm in the care and breeding of mosses as Nature manifests among these northern Sierras. I have studied a big fruitful week among the cañons and ridges of the Feather and another among the Yuba rivers, living and dead.
I have seen a dead river - a sight worth going round the world to see. The dead rivers and dead gravels wherein lies the gold form magnificent problems, and I feel wild and unmanageable with the intense interest they excite, but I wi11 choke myself off and finish my glacial work and that little book of studies. I have been spending a few fine social days with Emily [Pe1ton], but now work.
How gloriously it storms. The pines are in ecstasy, and I feel it and must go out to them. I must borrow a big coat and mingle in the storm and make some studies. Farewell. Love to all.
M.
P.S. How are Ned and Keith? I wish Keith had been with me these Shasta and Feather River days. I have gained a thousand fold more than I hoped. Heaven send you Light and the good blessings of wildness. How the rains plash and roar, and how the pines wave and pray.
Location
Brownsville [Calif.]
Date Original
1875 Jan 19
Source
Original letter dimensions: 18 x 22.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from [John Muir] to [Jeanne C.] Carr, 1875 Jan 19." (1875). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 307.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/307
Resource Identifier
muir03_0266-md-1.pdf
File Identifier
Reel 03, Image 0265
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
3 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
