Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
[Helen & Wanda Muir]
Transcription
May's June 3/06 - Sunday
Darlings, I'm here as usual for a day after a hard weeks work in the University Library in the paleontology alcove where I sit silent & alone from morn til eve wandering in the deeper silence of the enchanted old, old forests of the coal age The hours & days go on neither long or short glorious for imagination & mind, but tough for the old paleontological body nearing 70. There is no fatness in this work - only leanness, I'm getting thinner though fairly well fed. I get up at six am in the Sig woods from 9 to 5. with an hour or so for lunch at the Faculty Club where I meet the Profs not only of the University here but many from other universitys visiting here. I have also met a number of
& make plans for repairs, but I have not seen or heard from him since. He had to go to the Tuolumne Camp on business there. He said it would be hard to leave the work he has got into in the burned city & seemed so full of building plans & schemes I shall not be surprised if he does not take up the ranch work at all. And how Helen & I are to keep house alone I don't see or even guess as I wander in the enchanted forest. A few quick fleeting almanac years at most will show as far as the old man may count. But you are both well & happy as your Adamana letters tell & so of course am I.
And now to come out of all this dreamland & down to sublunary
Location
[Martinez, Calif.]
Date Original
1906 Jun 3
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from [John Muir] to [Helen & Wanda Muir], 1906 Jun 3." (1906). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 3538.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/3538
Resource Identifier
muir16_0263-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 16, Image 0263
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley. 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
