Title:
Letter from John Muir to Catharine Merrill, 1868 Dec 1
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:
[Catharine] Merrill
Date:
[1868] Dec 1
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir01_1277-md-1
Language:
eng
Coverage:
[Hopeton, 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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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:
Original letter returned to Miss M. Merrill Dec. 1st., 1868 Dear Merrill friends: Good evening. I am sitting upon a
California door-step. I came out to look at the night and happened to think of you. I think of you often, but seldom so vividly
as now. I often wonder why I cannot hear from you. The full moon is a few degrees above the grand Sierra Nevadas and only
one small cloud flake is in all the sky. Beautiful night, and something has spoken of Indiana. A little way out on the plains
between the Stanislaus and Tuolumne rivers, Dec. 1st. J.M. Envelope addressed Miss Catherine Merrill, Care Merrill Co.,
Indianapolis, Ind.