Title:
Letter from John Muir to [A. H.] Sellers, 1908 Apr 25.
Creator:
John Muir
Publisher:
Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library . Please contact
this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Contributor:
[A. H.] Sellers
Date:
1908 Apr 25
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir17_0462-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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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:
Old lone Home, Apr 25, 1908. Dear Sellers; Many thanks for your kind three-score-and-ten telegram. The years these days
however laden with care are the only things that go fast. I'm pegging away at Stickeen getting ahead, but at a pace about
as slow as that of a starving glacier that has not had a full hearty storm-meal of fountain snow for a dozen winters. How
comes this word-work to be so strangely difficult? Why even to dreamy wanderers should climbing Anglo-Saxon sentences be more
difficult than climbing mountains? But no soft sympathy may be looked for from hardhea ed? Chicago. O pshaw you'll say, Go
to the dogs or the dog so I will doggedly. Heaven bless you all with sweet unliterary peace believe me ever faithfully yours
John Muir