Creator
Ellen M. Wright
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
Medford July 30th 1895.
Mr. Jchn Muir,
Dear Sir ;
i>My best thanks for your valuable raid fascinating book," The Mountains of Calafornia, " and for the hcnor your presentation does me. My brother and I read his copy a loud together last winter, and it made us both wish more such book" might be writ ten and read; for not only is the preservation of the forests-for which it is the most stirring sort of appeal-fundamental to the preservation of abut all else worth preserving-human life included, but before that preservation can take place ,we need to learn, just what it teaches ,how to love and to enjoy Nature for her own sublime ,wonderful and infinately instructive sake. Its invigorating spirit ,with its science and rare power of description, is enough to lift the tamest soul above itself; and its keen and loving sympathy with all the separate little and big lives of that vast wild region, is awfully catching. Such a book ought to encourage the broadest and most generous politics ;and put to shame all that is ungenerous, careless, cruel or unnecessarily destructive in privateienterprise and in our enjoyments. My own copy shall have place with the books I love best on my shelves; and for an exploring trip so real, and to the grandest inspirations of Nature, so just and appreciative ,I shall often take it down.
Yours very truly,
EllenM.Wright.
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Location
Medford [Oregon]
Date Original
1895 Jul 30
Source
Original letter dimensions: 25.5 x 20.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Wright, Ellen M., "Letter from Ellen M. Wright to John Muir, 1895 Jul 30." (1895). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 3121.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/3121
Resource Identifier
muir08_1095-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 08, Image 1095
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
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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
