Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Jeanne C.] Carr
Transcription
00749
[letterhead]
Los Angeles, Cal. Aug 12th 1877
Dear Mrs Carr Ive seen your sunny Pasadena & the patch called yours, Everything about here pleases me & I felt sorely tempted to take Dr Congars advice & invest in an orange patch myself. I feel sure you will be happy here with the Doctor & Allie among so rich a luxuriance of sunny vegetation How you will dig & dibble in that mellow loom, I cannot think of you standing erect for a single moment unless it be in looking away out into the dreamy west. I made a fine shaggy little five days excursion back in the heart of the San Gabriel Mountains, and then a week of real pleasure with Congar resurrecting the past about Madison He has a fine little farm fine little family & fine cozy home.
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Los Angeles. Aug 12. 77.
I felt at home with Congar & at once took possession of his premises & all that in them is. We drove down [in margin: #30] through the settlements eastward & saw the best orange groves & vineyards but the mountains I as usual met alone. Although so gray & silent & unpromising they are full of wild gardens & ferneries Lilyries some specimens ten feet high with twenty lilies big enough for bonnets, The main results I will tell you some other time should you ever have an hours leisure. I go North today, by rail to Newhall thence by stage to Soledad & on to Monterey where I will take to the woods & feel my way in free study to San Fran May reach the city about the middle of next month. Heard through your factor here that Miss Powell is worse & that you would not be down soon I received your letter & Postal, also the letters you thought I had lost viz one from Salt Lake for which I sent & one from Yosemite wh Black forwarded With love to all I am ever yrs cordially JM
Location
Pico House, Los Angeles, Cal.
Date Original
1877 Aug 12
Source
Original letter dimensions: 25.5 x 20.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Jeanne C.] Carr, 1877 Aug 12." (1877). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 371.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/371
Resource Identifier
muir03_0552-md-1.pdf
File Identifier
Reel 03, Image 0551
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
