Creator

John Muir

Creator

John Muir

Recipient

Clara Barrus

Transcription

[Page 1] br> Martinez, Cal., April 14, 1910br> Miss Clara Barrusbr> State Hospital br> Middletown NYbr> Dear Miss Barrus;-br> I thank you for your long cordial letter. I have been very busy, almost stupidly so, of late, else I would have answered sooner. I have just got completed a rambling sketch of my first summer in the Sierra, some of which may prove to be worth while.br> Glad you are taking an interest in the National Park.br> I have heard from both Mr. Browne and Oom John, both busy and happy as usual. br> I sympathize with you in your efforts to shake off the dust of the hospital and build a place of your own in the woods. Keep this thing in view and you will surely succeed ere long. br> I shall look forward with pleasure to reading your article in the Century this summer.br> As to the geological story you refer to, I was at Independence Lake, not far from Truckee, in the Sierra. A man whose name I have forgotten kept a tavern there for the accommodation of visitors who went to the lake to fish for trout. He asked me one day how that lake was made. I told him that it was a glacier lake, the basin of which had been

"[Page 2]br> Miss Clara Barrus -2-br> Excavated by a glacier which descended from the summit of the range. He replied, “Well, it’s no use talkin’, this place has all been hev up, or sunk, or somethin’.”br> With my kindest regards to Mrs. Ashley and Mr. Burroughs when you next see them, believe me,br> Ever faithfully yours,br> John Muir"

Location

Martinez [Calif.]

Date Original

1910 Apr 14

Source

Original letter dimensions: 28 x 21 cm.

Resource Identifier

muir00_172-let

File Identifier

MSS 307 Muiriana

Collection Identifier

Online finding aid for the microform version of the John Muir Correspondence http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0w1031nc

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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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

2 pages

Keywords

Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters

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