Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[John] Burroughs
Transcription
IllegibleMartinez, CaliforniaDec,14,1909Now, dear Burroughs, don’t waste your good nature. I only did as you requested with the Yosemite geology, but you give me no thanks---only the other stuff.If obstinacy ,unyielding an e Yosemite dome, strangely nixed With love of flowers hills and dales, bees and trees, bird song and brook song, is a Scotch characteristic, then you, my dear John, are as Scottish as I am or over likely [Illegible] be. If instead of stubbornly sailing to Hawaiian Moweries and volcanoes you had allowed, me to take you to the head fountains of the Merced and Tuolumne on the high Sierra, you would have got plain lessons in ice action and water action and on the relationship of the great valley to existing end ancient glaciers at its head and on either side of it, and to all the other features of the landscape in general.Little is to be gained on such studies in books and. still less in squabbling controversy. Only long plodding observation in the field yields anything worth while, at least to poor dreamy wanderers as dull as I. Earth sculpture, and the life and beauty that goes with it, is a noble study, and now that you have got Yosemite on the brain, why not come again. I'd be delighted to have you in spite of your rank Scotch Catskill stubbornness ,and you might perhaps learn to endure or ignore my glacial behavior and airs.Anyhow, I am with all good wishes for the new year, faithfully your friend,John Muir.I’m sad about Gilder. what a loss we have sustained and all the country. New York seems lonesome to me now he has gone.J.M. Illegible04650
Location
Martinez, Calif.
Date Original
1909 Dec 14
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [John] Burroughs, 1909 Dec 14." (1909). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 5946.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/5946
Resource Identifier
muir18_0951-trans.tif
File Identifier
Reel 18, Image 0951
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
