Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Strentzel family]
Transcription
[in margin: Apr. 27, 1878]
Friends three,
The [wheezy, asthmatic?] old slow-coach Constance squirmed up to the wharf at 5 o’clock, & reached San Francisco at [ 8.40.?] The fine ferns & flowers you gave me are distributed & doing beauty-duty in a dozen homes. The little white fringe petaled favorite of yours is Telima. With pleasant memories of your green hills & flowery fruity home I am cordially yrs, John Muir.
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[deleted: until] And in spring & early summer when the hot sunbeams are poured lavishly down upon the snow fountains of the Alps, & the liberated waters sing jubilee, then is the flood time of our songsters melody, & [deleted: the] his richest strains course pour= =ing from his breast, like a river over- =flowing its banks – But as to the in= =fluence of the weather – dark days & sun- -days seem all alike to [underlined: him] The voices of most song birds suffer a long winter eclipse, but I never knew an ouzel to cease his singing in any season, or in any kind of weather snowing, blowing, cloudy, or clear, all the same he sings, & never a note of sadness – no need of spring sunshine to thaw his song, for it never freezes, nothing wintry
Location
[San Francisco]
Circa Date
[1878 Apr 27]
Source
Original letter dimensions: 22 x 31 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Strentzel family], [1878 Apr 27]." (1878). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 415.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/415
Resource Identifier
muir03_0785-md-1.pdf
File Identifier
Reel 03, Image 0784
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
