Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[George W.] Cable
Transcription
I wish you would send me your photograph
You ask what are [the?] Mountains saying - I hear them now only in my notebooks some of which I have been looking over. but this ranch work now holds me much of my time. I hope however to get off next summer to [the?] mountain pastures for a few big unmeasured months.
Goodbye. Come again
Best wishes for the new year Ever cordially yours
John Muir
Martinez, California
January 1, 1894.
Thank you my dear Cable for your good telling suggestive little letter It makes me hunger & thirst for a talk & saunter with you across your Dryad's Green, white now perhaps more than green yet displaying all the colors of Heaven in varying times & tones as the sun sweeps over it.
[illegible] had there is such a breadth of continent between us.
Do you ever walk with Bouroughs, You should sometimes & poke him up, for he needs it notwithstanding he has written so much that is truly delightful. It provokes me to have him [picking?] & puttering
so complacently as a naturalist without ever seeming to take time to look up & about to behold the glory of God.
Thank you for Lanier. I have had my eye on him for some time as a pact of great promise. How sad he should have left us so soon. And yet he has done far more than I thought he had. His pa[illegible]s have delicious fragrance & vividness. & how [sure?] & sustained & easy the beat of his wing
I shall always remember my cu[illegible]ing & little ride along the bay with you as one of the best blessings of 93. When are you coming again to our side the continent. [Man?] theres much for you here ready and waiting. Dont spend all your day talking & writing
Location
Martinez, California
Date Original
1894-01-01
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [George W.] Cable, 1894 Jan 1." (1894). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 6795.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/6795
Resource Identifier
muir08_0019-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 08, Image 0019
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
Tulane University Library Manuscripts Dept.. 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
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
