Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Jeanne C.] Carr
Transcription
00751
[1877] #31 1419 Taylor St S.F. Sep 3d —————
Dear Mrs Carr.
I have just been over at Alameda with poor dear old Gibbons. You have seen him, & I need give us particulars, “The only thing I’m afraid of John”, he said looking up with his old child face, “is that I shall never be able to climb the Oakland hills again”. But he is so healthy & so well cared for we will be strong to hope that he will. He spoke for an hour with characteristic unselfishness on the injustice done Dr Kellogg in failing to recognize his long continued devotion to receive at the botanical [ love?] fest held here the other night, He threatens to write up the whole discreditable affair, & is very anxious to obtain
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from you a copy of that Gray letter to Kellogg which was not delivered. I had a glorious ramble in the Santa Cruz woods & have found out one very interesting & picturesque fact concerning the growth of this Sequoia. I mean to devote many a long week to its study. What the [illegible] may be I cannot guess, But you know I am never [ sent?] empty away. I made an excursion to the summit of Mt Hamilton in extraordinary style accompanied by Allen, Norton, Bravley &, all the lady professors & their friends A curious contrast to my ordinary [underlined: still] [underlined: hunting]. Spent a week at San Jose, enjoyed my visit with Allen very much. Lectured to the faculty on Methods of study without undergoing any very great scare. I believe I wrote you from
Los Angeles about my Passadena week. Have sent a couple of letters to the Bulletin from there not yet published. I have no [ unflexible?] plans as yet for the remaining months of the season, but Yosemite seems to place itself as a most persistent candidate for my winter I shall soon be in flight to the Sierras or [illegible]. I seem to give up hope of ever seeing your calm again. Dont grind too hard at these Sacramento miles, Remember me to the Doctor & Allie
Ever Yrs Cordially John Muir
Location
S[an] F[rancisco]
Circa Date
[1877] Sep 3
Source
Original letter dimensions: 17 x 22.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Jeanne C.] Carr, [1877] Sep 3." (1877). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 373.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/373
Resource Identifier
muir03_0560-md-1.pdf
File Identifier
Reel 03, Image 0559
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
