Title:
Letter from John Muir to [Katharine] Graydon, 1912 May 10.
Creator:
John Muir
Publisher:
University of the Pacific Library Holt-Atherton Special Collections. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies
of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Contributor:
[Katharine] Graydon
Date:
1912 May 10
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir20_0982-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Martinez [Calif.]
Rights:
Copyrighted
The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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://library.pacific.edu/ha/forms
Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
Original letter returned to Miss Katharine M. Graydon Martinez, May 10, 1912. Dear Katie Graydon: It doesn't seem long
since you used to visit me in my dark room laden with spring flowers and you must know that a visit to you now would he according
to my own heart. But, alas, how Fate drives us and keeps us apart. Were we to follow our hearts in visiting friends we could
do no more work either in the fields or at our desks. How do you spend vacations? Do you never plan to come west to visit
friends ere they vanish. I'm alone in my library den trying to clear away a huge talus of letters a year high accumulated
while I was in South America and Africa. Wanda lives in the adobe with her three little boys, and Helen in Los Angeles with
her baby boy, who is just learning to walk. Love to you all, dear Katharine, Ever faithfully your friend, JOHN MUIR
Envelope addressed Miss Katharine M. Graydon, 303 Downey Avenue, Indianapolis, Ind. 05194