Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Cecilia & George [Galloway]
Transcription
[Original letter in possession of Sarah Muir Galloway]
Oakland, Feb. 26th, 1875.
My dear Cecilia and George:
I have just been reading your letters, all about the spelling and frost and the Santa Claus presents, and I enjoyed it very much. I wish I could have been among you to give you some more presents. I was up in the wild high mountains among the grouse and squirrels and wild sheep and didn't enjoy much difference in the days.
When I was up in the m't'ns a man took me along a road in a buggy to show me some gold mines and then he told his sister that he brought a man to the house, a scientific gentleman, and she said, "What is his name?" And he answered, "John Muir," and she said, "Why I know John Muir and wouldn't miss seeing him for anything." And this lady turned out to be a friend of Merrill Moores' mother, and his aunts, and so I had a visit with her that was about as good as going to Indianapolis where I used to live.
I suppose you may think that some of the letters I write are rather short, but I have eighteen or twenty to write this afternoon, and I have to be brief. If I was near enough to talk to you I would tell you about squirrels and wild sheep and deer and bears that live in the mountains, and about trees 300 ft. high and 30 feet thick.
This is the first day for me in town, and I feel homesick for the mountains already. Goodbye to you both, Cecelia and George. I hope you will always be good. Remember me to Anna and all your cousins. With much love, I remain,
Your uncle,
John Muir
Location
Oakland, [Calif]
Date Original
1875 Jan 26
Source
Original letter dimensions: 33 x 21.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Cecilia & George [Galloway], 1875 Jan 26." (1875). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 308.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/308
Resource Identifier
muir03_0272-md-1.pdf
File Identifier
Reel 03, Image 0271
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
1 page
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
