Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
James Davie Butler
Transcription
[in margin: 434 58]
April 26/05
Dear James Davie Butler:
With all my heart I congratulate you on your 90 long happy whirls through the starry heavens, all of them serene & beautiful like the stars themselves. How well you have borne the burden of joy & grief, heat & cold of your 90 year day, & in the midst of it all going again & again round the world like a moon. Surely few lives have been happier than yours, always doing some good, radiating smile-beams through dark & light, steadfast & true like a tree in all sorts of weather & fortune. Happy man! Good luck to you for the remaining yrs & for the yearless life beyond. Ever your faithful scholar admirer & friend
[in margin: over]
You inquire about Burbank - strange to say I never met him. He has been as busy in one field I in another. Nevertheless I long ago recognized him at a distance as a rare man a genius from his marvellous industry & insight in making flrs & fruits Now his fame has gone abroad over O & even his immediate Santa Rosa neighbors are beginning to know him.
[in margin: Copy letter of J.M. to Prof Butler]
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Apr.26, '05.
James
Dear Davie Butler:
With all my heart I congratulate you on your 90long happy whirls through the starry heavens, all of them serene and beautiful like the stars themselves.
How well you have borne the burden of joy and grief,heat and cold of your 90 year day. and in the midst of it all going again and again round the world like a moon. Surely few lives have been happier than yours, always doing, some good,radiating smile-beams through dark and light, steadfast and true like a tree in all sorts of weather and fortune. Happy man! Good luck to you for the remaining years and for the yearless life beyond.
Ever your faithful scholar, admirer and friend,
[John Muir]
You inquire about Burbank -- strange to say I never met him. He had been busy in one field, I am another. Nevertheless I long ago recognized him at a distance as a rare man, a genius from his marvellous industry and insight in making flowers and fruits. Now his fame has gone abroad over the world and even his immediate Santa Rosa neighbors are beginning to know him.
[Above letter inscribed, in Muir's handwriting,
"Copy letter of J.M. to Prof. Butler]
[Envelope containing this letter inscribed, in Muir's handwriting,
"One of my last letters to Prof. Butler, Madison, Wis."]
Location
[Martinez, Calif.]
Date Original
1905 Apr 26
Source
Original letter dimensions: 28 x 21 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from [John Muir] to James Davie Butler, 1905 Apr 26." (1905). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 3320.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/3320
Resource Identifier
muir15_0396-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 15, Image 0396
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, see http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Fees-and-Forms-.html
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
