Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Katharine] Hooker
Transcription
Martinez, Dec. 17, 1910—Dear Mrs Hooker, I'm glad you're at work on a book: for as far as I know however high or low Fortune's winds may blow o'er life's solemn main there is nothing so saving as good hearty work. From a letter just received from the Lark I learn the good news that Mr Hooker is also hard at work with his pen.As for myself I've been reading old musty dusty Yosemite notes until I'm tired & blinky blind, trying to arrange them in something like lateral medial & terminal moraines on my den floor. I never imagined I had accumulated so vast a number. The long trains & embankments & heaped up piles are truly appalling. I thought that in a quiet day or two I might select all that would be required for a guide book; but the stuff seems enough for a score of big jungle books, & it's very hard I find to steer through it on anything like a steady course in reasonable time. Therefor I'm beginning to see that I'll have to pick out only a moderate sized bagful for the book & abandon the bulk of it to waste away like a snowbank or grow into other farms as time & chance may determineSo after all I may be able to fly south in a few days & alight in your fine canyon garret. Anyhow with good will & good wishes to you all I am ever faithfully affectionatelyJohn Muir
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1910 Dec 17
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Katharine] Hooker, 1910 Dec 17." (1910). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 5202.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/5202
Resource Identifier
muir19_0998-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 19, Image 0998
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
