Title:
Letter from John Muir to [Katharine] Hooker, 1910 Sep 15.
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 Sep 15
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir19_0857-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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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:
Martinez Sep 15, 1910 Dear Mrs Hooker. Be of good cheer make the best of whatever befalls keep as near to headquarters as
you may you will surely triumph over the ills of life, its frets cares with all other vermin of either earth or sky. I'm
ashamed to have enjoyed my visit so much. A lone good soul can still work miracles, charm and outlandish crooked zig zag flat
into a lofty inspiring olymphus. Do you know these fine verses of Thoreau I will not doubt for evermore, Nor falter from
a steadfast forth, For though the system be turned o'er, God takes not back the word which once he saith. I will, then,
trust the love untold Which not my worth nor want has bought, Which wooed me young and wooes me old, And to this evening
hath me brought. Ever your friend John Muir