Title:
Letter from John Muir to Katharine Hooker, 1912 Apr 28.
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:
1912 Apr 28
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir20_0922-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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 April 28, 1912 Dear Katharine Hooker Home at last in my old library den. House home desolate. Nobody in it save
a hungry mouse or two, but the garden grounds about it are beautiful, fresh leafy rosy rejoicing in brightest springtime overrunning
all bounds, surpassing in number extravagant exuberance those of most of your sunny south gardens at their best, while the
Lebanon Himalaya Cedars the Australian bushes trees the oaks on the hills seem happier than ever. Strange to say both Wanda
Helen want to sell the blessed old place to an Oakland somebody or nobody stranger, so Ive bought it myself for the sake of
the memories about it, though the poor wanderer may never be able to make it his home. Love, dear illegible friend, to all
the clan. Ever, here or there or fateful anywhere, Faithfully affectionately yours John Muir