Creator
Sallie J. Kennedy
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
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Have you had your mind too much engrossed by other sciences to give this one any attention? Good bye – A happy useful Summer, and Safe return;
Your friend Sallie J. Kennnedy.
May anniversaries of happy days of last Summer, if I live, will come to mind this.
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Washington, May 8th, 1878.
My dear Mr Muir
How very kind of you to send me such an excellent photograph! The likeness could not have been made stronger. I am very happy to have it. Mine was taken a month or two since and I am almost ready to send you one; but as you go to the Mountains so soon, I should be shut up for months, and I shrink from the isolation. I fear the feeling is vanity – by what ever name called it is foolish. Your criticism on Dean Ramsays Reminiscences was delightful! How charming it would be could all
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book reviews be made so interesting. The topic in this case favored, and the reviewer thoroughly at home on the subject. I will get the book for it must be a rich store of good things, The anecdotes illustrated so well, and were [underlined: too amusing!] I remember of being much surprised last Summer to learn what you speak of here, the transition from Scotch to English, and I cannot account for it. Is the same condition il- lustrated by any other people? So you are soon to be in the Mountains; How happy you will be. I Know your thoughts will wander in pity occasionally, and sympathy, to your less fortunate fellow mortals whose circumstances
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circumscribe their desires (or actions.) I hope the season will be full of interesting results, and that you will continue well. Give my love to all the little Mountain flowers and tell the Ouzel of sunny spots in peoples hearts he has made and little dreams of I will watch for Scribner. I am sorry you will not be able to go to Chico. Annie writes of still newer drives, and flowers. She seems to be making a large collection of plants. How sad, how sad, the closing scene in the life of the great Hugh Miller! I am now delving a little into the forests of California in reading the Ethnology of the State.
Location
Washington
Date Original
1878 May 8
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20 x 25 cm.
Recommended Citation
Kennedy, Sallie J., "Letter from Sallie J. Kennedy to John Muir, 1878 May 8." (1878). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 422.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/422
Resource Identifier
muir03_0815-md-1.pdf
File Identifier
Reel 03, Image 0814
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
Copyright status unknown
Copyright Statement
Some letters written to John Muir may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
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.
Pages
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
