Creator

John Muir

Creator

John Muir

Recipient

Sarah [Muir Galloway]

Transcription

1419 Taylor St. S.F. April 17th 1876

Dear Sister Sarah –

I was glad the other day to have the hard continuous toil of book writing interrupted by the postman handing in your letter. It is full of news, but I can think of little to put in the letter you ask for. My life these days is like the life of a glacier one eternal grind, & the top of my head suffers a weariness at times that you know nothing about. Im glad to see by the hills across the bay, all yellow & purple with buttercups & gilias, that spring is blending fast into summer, & soon Ill throw down my pen, & take up my heels & go mountaineering once more. My first book is taking shape now, & is mostly written, but still far from complete. I hope to see it in print, rubbed, & scrubbed, & elaborated, some time next year. Among the unlooked for burdens fate is loading upon my toil-doomed shoulders, is this literature

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& lecture [ time?], I suppose I will be called upon for two more addresses in San Francisco ere I make my annual Hegira to the woods. A few weeks ago I lectured at San Jose & Oakland. Im glad to hear of the general good health & welfare of our scattered & multiplied family. Of Katies returning health-, & Joannas – Remember me warmly to Mrs Galloway, tell her I will be in Wisconsin in two or three years, & hope to see her still surounded by her many affectionate friends – I was pleasantly surprised to notice the enclosed clipping today in the NY Tribune – I also read a notice of a book by Prof James Law of Cornell University, whom I used to play with, I met one of his scholars a short time ago Give my love to David & all your little big ones Ever very affectionately yrs John Muir

Location

S[an] F[rancisco]

Date Original

1876 Apr 17

Source

Original letter dimensions: 31.5 x 22 cm.

Resource Identifier

muir03_0408-md-1.pdf

File Identifier

Reel 03, Image 0407

Collection Identifier

Online finding aid for the microform version of the John Muir Correspondence http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0w1031nc

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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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

2 pages

Keywords

Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters

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