Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[William] Colby & Parsons [Family]
Transcription
1525 Formosa Avenue,Hollywood, Cel., June 24, 1912.Deer Mr. Colby and Mr. and Mrs. Persons:-I thank you very much for your kind wishes to give me a pleasant Kern River trip, and am very sorry that work has been so unmercifully piled upon me that I find it impossible to escape from it, so I must just stay and work.I heartily congratulate you and all your merry mountaineers in the magnificent trip that lies before you. As you know, I have seen something of nearly all the mountain chains of the world, and have experienced their varied climates and attractions of forests and rivers, lakes and meadows, etc. In fact, I have seen a little of all the high places and low places of the continents, but no mountain range seems to me so kind, so beautiful, or so fine in its sculpture as the Sierra Nevada. If you were as free as the winds are light to choose a camp ground in any part of the globe, I couldnot direct you to a single place for your outing that, all thingsconsidered, is so attractive, so exhilarating and uplifting in every way as just the trip that you are now making. You are far happier then you know. Good luck to you all, and I shall hope to see you all on your return, boys and girls, with the sparkle end exhilaration of the mountains still in your eyes. With love and countless fondly cherished memoriesEver faithfully yours,John Muir[illegible]
Location
Hollywood, Calif.
Date Original
1912 Jun 24
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [William] Colby & Parsons [Family], 1912 Jun 24." (1912). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 6296.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/6296
Resource Identifier
muir20_1069-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 20, Image 1069
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
