Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Mrs. [L.] Strentzel
Transcription
Belmont Nevada Aug’ 31st 1878.
Dear Mrs Strentzel.
I wrote you a note the other day before receiving your letter of the 14th wh reached me this morning. The men are packing up & I have only a moment We have been engaged so long southward that we may not go to Eureka, if not we will make direct to Hamilton & the b[illegible] Dr so kindly sent I will have forwarded. The fury sun is pouring in first beams across the gray Belmont hills but so long as there is [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] supply of any kind of water to keep my blood thin & flowing it effects me but little. We are all well again or nearly so, I quite. Our leader still shows traces of fever. The difference between wet & dry bulb thermometer is often here 40° or more causing excessive waste from lungs & skin sunless water be constantly supplied ones blood seems to thicken to such an extent that if S[illegible] should ask “If you prick him will he bleed” I should answer, I [illegible]. Heavens! if the juicy grapes had come manner like from the sky that last thirst night.
Farewell – we go – John Muir Cordially thankfully yrs
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the very finest [illegible] most [illegible] purple here [illegible] the permeates covers glow[illegible] the mtns & the how lovely then, how suggestive of the best heaven how unlike a desert now While the little garden the [illegible] moths opening flrs & the cool evening wind that now begins to flow & [illegible] down the gray sloper [illegible] heighten the peacefulness & lovingness of the scene I have been looking with great anxiety for [illegible] from you & but the other day got your of the 28 30 [illegible]
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Location
Belmont, Nevada
Date Original
1878 Aug 31
Source
Original letter dimensions: 32 x 20.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Mrs. [L.] Strentzel, 1878 Aug 31." (1878). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 440.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/440
Resource Identifier
muir03_0887-md-1.pdf
File Identifier
Reel 03, Image 0886
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
