Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Alice [Mc Chesney]
Transcription
[Original letter returned to Mrs. J. B. McChesney]
1419 Taylor St.,
San Fran., May 5th, 1875.
My dear Alice:
I have just received your wee letter, and I was glad to get it [and] to hear all about your going to school and about your brother and the chickens.
I got down to the city from Mt. Shasta last evening, and I would have been over at your house to give you some mountain lilies I brought for you had I not been lame. I got my feet frost-nipped on Mt. Shasta in a storm, but they are getting well and I will be over soon. I wish you could come and get them before they wither.
I saw a great many ferns and flowers growing along the banks of the Sacramento River and around the base of Mt. Shasta, but I had not time to gather them. The flower that eats butterflies lives up there. I hope you will get the lilies before they wither. I saw a bumble-bee on the very top of Mt. Shasta high above the storm clouds. I hope the fine strong fellow was not frost-bitten like me.
I am,
Ever your friend,
John Muir
Location
San Francisco
Date Original
1875 May 5
Source
Original letter dimensions: 33 x 21.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Alice [Mc Chesney], 1875 May 5." (1875). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 317.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/317
Resource Identifier
muir03_0306-md-1.pdf
File Identifier
Reel 03, Image 0305
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
