Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Jeanne C.] Carr
Transcription
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ice. & may possibly find my way home in the fall to see my mother. I wonder if you will really go quietly away south when your office term expires & rest in the afternoon of your life among your pine & orange leaves, or, unable to yet full absolution from official & Womans Rights unrest, you will fight & squirm till sundown. Ive seen nothing of you all these fighting years. I suppose nothing less than an [underlined: exhaustive] miniature of all the leafy creatures of the globe will satisfy your Passadena aspirations. You know how little real sympathy I can give in such play garden schemes, still if so in appreciative & unavailable a man as I may be of use at all, let me known Ever cordially yrs John Muir.
[1]
920 Valencia St #21 Apr 9th 1879.
Dear Mrs Carr.
I did not send the pine book to you because I was using it in rewriting a portion of the Cal Forest article which will appear in Scribner May or June, & because before it could have reached you you were according to your letter to be in San Francisco & could then take it with you. It is entitled “Gardon’s Pineturn”. – Published by Henry Garden, Simpkin, Marshall & Co. Stationers’ Hall Court. 1845, 2d Edition. It is an “exhaustive” work, very exhausting anyhow, & contains a fine big much of little.
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[2]
The summit pine of our Sierra is P. Albianlis of Engelmann. & the P. flexilis Torr given in this work as a synonym is a very different tree, growing spa[illegible] on the Eastern flank of the Sierra, from Bloody Canon Southward, but very abundant on all the higher Basin ranges, & on the Wahsatch & Rocky Mountains. The Grange book is it seems another exhaustive [deleted: book] work. There is something admirable in the scientific nerve & aplomb manifested in the titles of these swollen volumes. How a tree book can be exhaustive when every species is ever on the [ living?] from one form to another with infinite variety, it is not easy to see. I haven’t the least idea who
[3]
Mr Rexford is, but if connected with the Bulletin I can probably get the title of his Citrus book through Mr Williams, will probably see him next Sunday. The Sunday Convention Ma[illegible] offered me a hundred dollars for two lectures on the Yosemite rocks in June, I have not yet agreed to do so, though I probably shall, as I am not going into Colorado this summer. Excepting a day at San Jose with Allen I have hardly been out of my room for weeks. pegging away with my quill & accomplishing little. My last efforts were on the preservation of the Sierra forests, & the wild & trampled conditions of our flora from a bee point of view. I want to spend the greater portion of the season up the coast observing
Location
920 Valencia St.[San Francisco, Calif]
Date Original
1879 Apr 9
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 25.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Jeanne C.] Carr, 1879 Apr 9." (1879). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 477.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/477
Resource Identifier
muir03_1041-md-1.pdf
File Identifier
Reel 03, Image 1040
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
