Title:
Letter from Eleanor Pomeroy to John Muir, 1913 Dec 17.
Creator:
Eleanor Pomeroy
Publisher:
University of the Pacific Library Holt-Atherton Special Collections. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies
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Contributor:
John Muir
Date:
1913 Dec 17
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir21_1080-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 28 x 21.5 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Boston
Rights:
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Transcription:
75 West Rutland square, Boston, Massachusetts. December 17, 1913 My dear Lover-of-Nature; May I thank you most heartily
for your kind message concerning your playground and prayground? I appreciate it deeply, especially at this season when the
harmony of things is peculiarly close. In your California flowers bloom; here in Massachusetts branches are bare but the message
that they bring to me is as divine as are your flowers that I love so well.... I want to tell you how much I have enjoyed
the storyof your boyhood and youth; it is here on my desk -a borrowedcopy and only last evening I came to the story of thelittle
frozen squirrel with his peck of wheat; also, the swimming episode which I doubly appreciated because I, too, was told to
consider the frogs and how they swam... I send you my heartiest greetings of the Christmas season. May yours be a very beautiful
one. May the new year bring a wealth of beauty, also. This is the greeting of a girl-a year-out-of-college girl who has struck
the writer's trail and who is gathering all the joy of the march. Respectfully and faithfully, illegible 05634