Title:
Letter from John Muir to [Katharine] Hooker, 1910 Dec 17.
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:
[Katharine] Hooker
Date:
1910 Dec 17
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir19_0999-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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
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Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
Martinez, Dec. 17, 1910 Dear Mrs Hooker, I'm glad you're at work on a book: for as far as I know however high or low Fortune's
winds may blow o'er life's solemn main there is nothing so saving as good hearty work. From a letter just received from the
Lark I learn the good news that Mr Hooker is also hard at work with his pen. As for myself I've been reading old musty dusty
Yosemite notes until I'm tired blinky blind, trying to arrange them in something like lateral medial terminal moraines on
my den floor. I never imagined I had accumulated so vast a number. The long trains embankments heaped up piles are truly appalling.
I thought that in a quiet day or two I might select all that would be required for a guide book; but the stuff seems enough
for a score of big jungle books, it's very hard I find to steer through it on anything like a steady course in reasonable
time. Therefor I'm beginning to see that I'll have to pick out only a moderate sized bagful for the book abandon the bulk
of it to waste away like a snowbank or grow into other farms as time chance may determine So after all I may be able to fly
south in a few days alight in your fine canyon garret. Anyhow with good will good wishes to you all I am ever faithfully affectionately
John Muir