Title:
Letter from [John Muir] to [recipient unknown], [ca. 1870].
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:
[recipient unknown]
Date:
[ca. 1870]
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir02_0370-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
[place unknown]
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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:
E Flour Fragment of letter, p.3, in Muir's handwriting The flowers I used to watch and love are mostly dead, and all
the open gardens are trodden into dust, but in craggy nooks and aloft in the high fenced conservatories a thousand of the
fairest and dearest still dwell safely. Pat, pat, shuffle,shuffle, crunch, crunch, I hear you all on the sidewalks and sandbeds,
plodding away, hoping in righteousness and heaven, and saying your prayers as best you can, above the sand, beneath the fog,
and fenced by the lake and marshes. Heaven help you all and give you ice and granite. 437 09925