Creator
N. D. Stebbins
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
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the precinct of Montecito. We have no PO in this precinct. I am not strong enough to ramble about much. I wished for your opinion last summer while I was visiting some of the canons in the upper part of S.B. Valley. It is said there are no evidences of the action of glaciers below Monterey in this State. I imagined I saw something that looked like it in New Annie Canon. [illegible] [illegible] Ranch — I would be delighted to see you and learn more of your adventures & [illegible] in what we both feel so enthusiastically about & [illegible] [illegible] of it – if we are called Mountaineers. I have often longed to be with you. How much I wished to be with you when at Alaska – I am nearly an old 79 [illegible]. It is hard work for me to give up the struggle. [illegible] [illegible]. I don’t know now when I shall visit San Francisco
[in margin: I may this fall or early winter Wehenever I do I hope to see you. Give my warmest [regards?] to Mrs. Muir Yours truly N.D. Stebbing]
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Santa Barbara Cal. June 21/80
My dear friend John Muir
Today I was more than pleased to have a letter put into my hands which had your autograph attached to it. Some weeks since at one of my calls on a lady friend nearby in conversation your name came up. They said the lady I saw a notice in a ‘paper’ that Mr. Muir was married. That opened my [illegible]. I [illegible] you saying that you loved the mountains & you believed that they loved you. The question arose in my mind [illegible] he got [illegible] from his old loves? I’ll see had wrote to Mr Carr & enquired about your whereabouts - & status! Only a few days [since?] I received an answer confirming the news – glorious news too I intended before this to have written to you &
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congratulated you on your “second sober though” & found one in whom you could love fervently and at the same time know that it was fully appreciated. Nothing like lovely intelligence – don’t you think so? May it last till ripe old age & your ‘[illegible]’ be full of [illegible[ [illegible] and what a blessing! I want to say I have been interested in [reading?] your letters from Alaska published in the Bulletin especially your account of the glaciers & the trip with the great clergy & criticism on their [illegible] [illegible] I have seen some of your articles in previous magazines but I have not seen your book [on Mountain?] St[illegible] – glacier [illegible] [illegible] [illegible]. When will that make its appearance? Your letter to me was put into my hands by a friend at common
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school & S. School [illegible]. He brought it to me from the [illegible] There was present Mrs. Otis. A. [illegible] Otis. Her husband was formerly publisher at the S.B. [illegible]. He is now engaged for a Seal Co.(?) in Alask. It may be you have seen him as he was in Alaska last summer. I let Mrs Otis look over your letter. She was pleased with it and remarked she would like to write to you – but felt a little de[illegible] about it. She has a fine cultivated mind. A poet. writes for Eastern journals - & some in Cala a lovely character. In many respects like our friend Mrs Carr. I told her after tomorrow she might address you as soon as she pleased, for to night I would write to you & introduce her to you as my friend. I am living some three miles from the Post office in
Location
Santa Barbara, Cala.
Date Original
1880 June 21
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 25.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Stebbins, N. D., "Letter from N. D. Stebbins to John Muir, 1880 June 21." (1880). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 560.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/560
Resource Identifier
muir04_0218-md-1.pdf
File Identifier
Reel 04, Image 0217
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
Copyright status unknown
Copyright Statement
Some letters written to John Muir may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
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.
Pages
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
