Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Mrs. [Jeanne] Carr
Transcription
Martinez, January 7, 1895
My dear Mrs Carr, We are all glad that you so wisily work & bear up under your bereavement. All this passing from life to life however gloriously hopeful is ever sad, & they are truly blest who have the strength & faith to work on & enjoy on without halting or hasting like a star, as Goethe says, or like a glacier as I say.
All those cases of spirit-sight seem strange and most of us have to go on without it as best we can. Remember me warmly to Mrs Conger and tell her that I always look back with pleasure to the long hearty visit I enjoyed at her house when the family were as yet undivided.
I would like to do as you say come to Pasadena with the children & Mrs. Muir but we can’t leave Grandma who as you know is an invalid.
I think I told you before of my trip to Norway Switzerland Scotland etc & my visit to Madison when I met all the present professors. Give my kind regards to the boys and believe me Mrs Smith is impatiently waiting for a letter from you Ever your friend John Muir
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1895 Jan 7
Source
Original letter dimensions: 27 x 20 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Jeanne Carr 1895 Jan 7" (1895). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 4813.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/4813
Resource Identifier
muir00_001-let
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
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
