Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[William F.] Herrin
Transcription
(Copied from rough draft of letter marked Y-10) [ca 24 May 1914] Dear Mr. Herrin: Thanks, thanks, thanks for your everlasting kindness. Ever since that last delightful night at your home I have been lost in Alaska, sinking in moss bogs, jumping logs, rooks, and crevasses, drifting along endless fiords, tracing old wanderings and trying to make something like a book of them. Last Friday Mr. Parsons, one of our faithfulles Sierra Club members died suddenly of heart dilation. I've taken a little more cold in this drizzle weather. As soon as these trouble clouds lift a little I'll gladly spend another reviving night with you and go to your blessed, healing, cheering, Wildwood pines. Ever faithfully yours, J.M. (Rough draft of letter to Mrs. Parsons on same sheet of paper)05753
[ca 24 May 1914] (Copied from rough draft of letter marked Y-10Letter to Mr. Herrin on same fragment) Dear Mrs. Parsons: I little thought when last I wrote that theend of your husband's blessed faithful life was so nigh. Mr. Colby's letter alarmed me but I refused to believe that one so full of the strength of the hills was beyond healing. I wish I could help to comfort you in your sore loneliness, though the warmest heart words must at first be unavailing. From this good world he knew so well he has gone to a better world and while his cheery inspiring resence will be sadly missed by every good mountaineer they will all continue to rejoice together in the great, good, enduring work he accomplished. None will miss his inpslring presence more than myself, for especially in Sierra Club work I had come to depend on him with ever-increasing confidence. JOHN MUIR05753
Location
[Martinez, Calif.]
Circa Date
[1914 May 26]
Source
Original letter dimensions: 33 x 25.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [William F.] Herrin, [1914 May 26]." (1914). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 6547.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/6547
Resource Identifier
muir22_0333-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 22, Image 0333
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
3 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
