Title:
Letter from John Muir to [Jeanne C.] Carr, [ca, 1875 Apr 15].
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:
[Jeanne C.] Carr
Date:
[ca, 1875 Apr 15]
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir03_0294-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 31.5 x 21.5 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
[place unknown]
Rights:
Copyrighted
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Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
1. Sunday noon Dear Mrs Carr I would like to saunter with you to the buckeye but confess I dont feel like plashing into
the middle of this Buck masters lake of lassies I would rather revel with the bees in the bloom of strentzels by orchards,
but in a day or two I am going to take snuff, Shasta snow-dust therefore cannot have either buckeye or apple bloom. I am going
to the summit of Mt Shasta deleted: next sometime this week to be gone eight or ten days I suppose it will then be too late
for Diablo at least Louie s letter is a marvellous piece of scribery almost fairy in fineness daintiness. in margin: illegible
is glorious. Mrs. Harry Edwards sends love to you while I am ever yrs Cordially John Muir. All my book is in the meantime
bound in Shasta snowdust 00697