Title:
Letter from J[eanne] C. C[arr] to [John Muir], [1872] Mar 3.
Creator:
J[eanne] C. C[arr]
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:
[1872] Mar 3
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir02_0714-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 33 x 21.5 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
[San Mateo, Calif]
Rights:
Copyright status unknown
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Transcription:
Fragment of letter of Mrs. Carr, March 3, 1872 I shall put your glacial letter to me with the one to LeConte into shape
and send to Mr. Emerson, asking him to get it published in the Atlantic. You are not to know anything about it -- Let it take
its chances. But my mind is made up on one 'pint'. All this fugitiveness is going to be gathered up, lest you should die
like Hoses in the mountains and God should bury you where 'no man knoweth'. I copied every word of your old Journal. It looks
pretty, and reads well. You have only to continue it and make the 'Yosemite Year Book', painting in your inimitable way, the
march of the Seasons there. Try your pen on some of the humans, too. Get sketches at least. I think it would be a beautiful
book. Then you will put your scientific convictions into clear-cut crystalline prose for other uses. I have not broached
the money question with Mr. Carmany; will set Mr. Benton upon that if any smallness should manifest itself. March 3d.
Our good minister, Mr. Hamilton, is ill and Dr. Carr preached today, Mr. Benton doing the praying. The lecture was upon the
Identities of Faith, with readings from Hindoo scriptures and from Paul and others in our own -- and the prayers were excellent
and fitted to the occasion. It was a very uncommon thing all through and seemed to open a window into some minds. Excuse these
accidental half sheets. Dr. Carr sends love, and Allie, and I am always your friend, J.c.G. Jeanne C. Carr 467??