Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Helen [Muir]
Transcription
Funston Camp, July 13,1908Darling Helen.Its just 2 weeks since I started for the Sierra, my old home & I find it hard to leave. Am feeling so much better, almost like myself. I intended to leave the party at the soda. aprings above the Upper kern Lake & return by the giant Forest & Visalia, but couldn't help coming up higher. We just returned from a trip to the basin of the Grand Arroya near the kahn & had grand time. July 15th. Failed to get this letter into the mail. Expect it will go tomorrow. Have not yet heard from you but expect a letter by next mail. My address, as given in other letters is c/o Sierra Club,Mineral King, Cal.about 114 set out yesterday for Mt. Whitney & I intended to go also, but my horse was required by a party going to Mineral king & tho getting strong did not like to take so long & hard & hurried a walk, So am taking my ease in mine parlor under the Kern Cottonwoods & pines, 6600 footies above the yellow torrid plains of San Joaquin, looking at the trees & lilies etc. & drinking snow water & its music. Oh the glorious crystal floods how they clash & surge & chant on their bowldery way through the wilderness.l've been lecturing & talking, tongue on sounding on about as ceaselessly as the passing waters, but tomorrow I think I'll steel out of camp for a quiet day along as of yore.I am always turning to you wishing you were well enough to be here. But the air the fine is not so downright delicious at daybreak as it is on the Mohave or Arizona plateaus. Hever mind, my darling, we will with God's grace have many a glorious trip together.I suppose I'll be back home in bout a week & than if you need me I'll make haste to the desert & tell you this. kern Mountain story.Remember me to all the kind Van Dykes & Funks, Heaven keep you safely my darling & may you ever feel me neat however high the mountains & broad the plains between us.Your friend, father & loverJohn Muir
Location
Funston Camp
Date Original
1908 Jul 13
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Helen [Muir], 1908 Jul 13." (1908). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 5478.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/5478
Resource Identifier
muir17_0743-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 17, Image 0743
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
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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
Pages
3 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
