Title:
Letter from John Muir to Sarah [Muir Galloway], 1872 Jul 16.
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:
Sarah [Muir Galloway]
Date:
1872 Jul 16
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir02_0852-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 33 x 21.5 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Yosemite Valley
Rights:
Copyrighted
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to publish or exhibit them, see
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Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
Original letter in possession of Sarah Muir Galloway John Muir School, Scottie, mash. Yosemite Valley. July 16th, 1872.
Dear Sister Sarah: Your bundle composed of socks and letters has arrived.for which I am much indebted. I had not seen the
n.y. Tribune letter you sent. I want you to see all I write, good or bad. I may some time write regularly for some journal
or other. My scientific friends are clamorous for glaciers, etc. I have had a great day in meeting Dr. Asa Gray, the first
botanist in the world. My Boston friends made him know me before he came, and I expect a grand time with him. While waiting
for Gray this afternoon on the mountain side I climbed the Sentinel Rock, 3000 feet high. Here is an oak sprig from the top.
Merrill Moores came a couple of days ago to spend a few months with me. I am very happy, but have to see too many people for
the successful prosecution of my studies. Full moon lights all the groves and rocks and casts splendid masses of shade on
meadow and wall. Visitors jar and noise, but Nature goes grandly and calmly over all confusion like winds over our domes...
Give all the children and Davie my cordial regards, and always remember me to Mrs. Galloway, who though blind yet sees incomparably
more than most people. I hope to see Agassiz this summer, and if I can get him away in to the outside mountains among the
old glacier wombs alone. I shall have a glorious time... Remember me, of course, to all the Muir genus and all who care for
me. With unchanging brother love. Farewell. J. Muir