Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Doctor [John Strentzel]
Transcription
920 Valencia St. San Francisco, Feb’ 11 1879.
Dear Doctor.
Your letter & pippins are here. You must have been quite sick, though you write so lightly of blues & testaments & Scotch brose. I am glad you are well again, & hope that the coming spring sunshine will remove all trace of your lung difficulty. My blues were nothing worth mentioning, only a dull unfruitful endurance of nothing in particular-a sort of religious desperation about metropolitan homes, that suggest heavens by way of opposites. I too am better, & the bees hum however indistinctly. Bee-lands,
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bee-ranches, honey fields, honey- -flowers, thyme, [illegible], sweet Marjory, White Sage, Black sage, bog-huckleberry an’ a’, an heaped in loose shifting piles about my table, like one of your wood piles on the roadside. As yet I have accomplished very nearly nothing – reviewed a little book, & written a first sketch of our bee pastures. In the homological line however [illegible] have done wonders. The Newtons are vanishing like snow when its thaw, & the work goes bravely on, in & out of season, down to the bottom of the box. [in margin: 672] How astoundingly empty & dry box-like is ones brain in a house built on one of those precious “Lots” one hears so much about. —With cordial regard to all – John Muir.
Location
San Francisco
Date Original
1879 Feb 11
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 25.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Doctor [John Strentzel], 1879 Feb 11." (1879). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 464.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/464
Resource Identifier
muir03_0989-md-1.pdf
File Identifier
Reel 03, Image 0988
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
1 page
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
