Title:
Letter from John Muir to Doctor [John Strentzel], 1879 Feb 11.
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:
Doctor [John Strentzel]
Date:
1879 Feb 11
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir03_0989-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 25.5 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
San Francisco
Rights:
Copyrighted
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Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
920 Valencia St. San Francisco, Feb 11 1879. Dear Doctor. Your letter pippins are here. You must have been quite sick,
though you write so lightly of blues testaments Scotch brose. I am glad you are well again, hope that the coming spring sunshine
will remove all trace of your lung difficulty. My blues were nothing worth mentioning, only a dull unfruitful endurance of
nothing in particular-a sort of religious desperation about metropolitan homes, that suggest heavens by way of opposites.
I too am better, the bees hum however indistinctly. Bee-lands, 00830 bee-ranches, honey fields, honey- -flowers, thyme,
illegible , sweet Marjory, White Sage, Black sage, bog-huckleberry an a , an heaped in loose shifting piles about my table,
like one of your wood piles on the roadside. As yet I have accomplished very nearly nothing reviewed a little book, written
a first sketch of our bee pastures. In the homological line however illegible have done wonders. The Newtons are vanishing
like snow when its thaw, the work goes bravely on, in out of season, down to the bottom of the box. in margin: 672 How astoundingly
empty dry box-like is ones brain in a house built on one of those precious Lots one hears so much about. With cordial regard
to all John Muir.