Creator
Louie Strentzel Muir
Recipient
Johannes Reimers
Transcription
Stockton March 23-1905 Dear Mrs Muir, I have made a recommendation to the Superintendent for the improvements of the [ ] grounds at [ ] of which were speaking the other day. And while I have not a final report on the matter, it looks as if the recommendation would be followed. I will know in a short time and will then inform you. [next] week I’ll send to you or bring you the [ ] I promised you and also [ ] good plants of the [Archolis grandis]. I sent a man down to Muir the other day to [ ] and he has reported to me that he has finished the work. I am very busy fighting weeds and planting more trees and palms down in the San Joaquin. The valley is more beautiful than I ever saw it before. The wide fields [ ] to cry with joy. And the cry is catching to the son of man, so that he goes forth singing in the vast wilderness. At this time of the year a great longing comes to me for the mountains. There, after all, is the greatest escpression, the most jubilant call. There are [ ] [ ] to the tremendous something which many call God—there and in the [ ] of the [ ] sea. We are all well. With best regards to all Sincerely yours Johannes Deimers
Location
Stockton, CA
Date Original
1905-03-23
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Reimers, Johannes, "Letter from Johannes Reimers to Mrs. Muir [Louie Strentzel Muir], 1905 Mar 23" (1905). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 6768.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/6768
Resource Identifier
1905 Mar 23 Johannes Riemers
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
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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.
Pages
3 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
