Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Katharine Hooker]
Transcription
[1913?]
Martinez
Dear friend:
with all my heart I thank you for your kind call to your home, and you surely know how gladly I shall run to it as soon as I can escape from this jungle tangle of wordwork. When that will be only Heaven knows. How strange it seems that work should be able to shove us from continent to continent yet prevent us from going from friend to friend let hearts push and pull as they may. It sometimes looks as if I was still held fast bound by the contrary extravagantly self denying doctrine taught in old Scotland that we should never do what we most like to do but only what we like least.
I got my S. American & African notes copied and locked up for safe keeping before I left Los Angeles. Here in my lonely den I have all my old Alaska notes about me and am hard at work on them, never going out except now and then to the adobe for a meal, eating little, taking
no exercise, am thinner than ever, flesh vanishing. After it's all gone leaving only bones and joint-ties I'll rattle up a mountain for reincarnation
In the meantime I'm perfectly well, and be assured that no distance no drudging befogment of work ever dims or in any way abates the light of our friendship. Heart radium rays go streaming to you through the Contra Costa hills every day in one grand perpetual visit
Anyhow here or there fleshy or fleshless I am ever with love to you all
faithfully affectionately
John Muir
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Circa Date
[1913]
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Katharine Hooker], [1913 ?]." (1913). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 4201.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/4201
Resource Identifier
muir21_1118-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 21, Image 1118
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
