Title:
Letter from John Muir to [William] Colby & Parsons [Family], 1912 Jun 24.
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:
[William] Colby & Parsons [Family]
Date:
1912 Jun 24
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir20_1070-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Hollywood, 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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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:
1525 Formosa Avenue, Hollywood, Cel., June 24, 1912. Deer Mr. Colby and Mr. and Mrs. Persons:- I thank you very much
for your kind wishes to give me a pleasant Kern River trip, and am very sorry that work has been so unmercifully piled upon
me that I find it impossible to escape from it, so I must just stay and work. I heartily congratulate you and all your merry
mountaineers in the magnificent trip that lies before you. As you know, I have seen something of nearly all the mountain chains
of the world, and have experienced their varied climates and attractions of forests and rivers, lakes and meadows, etc. In
fact, I have seen a little of all the high places and low places of the continents, but no mountain range seems to me so kind,
so beautiful, or so fine in its sculpture as the Sierra Nevada. If you were as free as the winds are light to choose a camp
ground in any part of the globe, I couldnot direct you to a single place for your outing that, all thingsconsidered, is so
attractive, so exhilarating and uplifting in every way as just the trip that you are now making. You are far happier then
you know. Good luck to you all, and I shall hope to see you all on your return, boys and girls, with the sparkle end exhilaration
of the mountains still in your eyes. With love and countless fondly cherished memories Ever faithfully yours, John Muir
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