Title:
Letter from John Muir to [Annie Kennedy] Bidwell, 1879 May 3.
Creator:
John Muir
Publisher:
The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of
the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Contributor:
[Annie Kennedy] Bidwell
Date:
1879 May 3
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir03_1051-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
920 Valencia St. San Francisco, [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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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:
920 Valencia St. San Francisco, May 3 1879. Dear Mrs Bidwell. Your bonnie telling bunch of bloom is here, how gladly I
would seek the fields where it came you must know, But alack work, work, work, holds me here. How beautiful the fields, plains,
fence corners, about Chico must be. I have been hoping all through the winter that I should be with you in bloom-time for
at least a week. Now summer is coming on, my chances to see Chico this year seem to be growing less. I may probably go into
the Sierra above Yosemite for month, then up the Coast to study the glacial phenomena The Sunday School people from the east
want me to lecture for them; but this is a business that I know little about. Am hard at work with my pen. Have not had a
single excursion this winter. How have your flora studies prospered? With thanks for the bloom, I am cordially yrs, John Muir