Title:
Letter from John Muir to Miss [Louie] Strentzel, 1879 Apr 18.
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:
Miss [Louie] Strentzel
Date:
1879 Apr 18
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir03_1045-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 31.5 x 21.5 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
San Francisco, [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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
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Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
00841 San Francisco, Apr 18th 1879. Dear Miss Strentzel I failed to see you on Tuesday night, the absurd old black
horse having for once been on time. Everybody, according to the eternal unfitness of civilized things, has been seeking for
me calling on me while I was away. John Swett on his second failure to find me left word with Mr Upham that he was coming
up to Martinez to see me some time during the summer vacation The other day I chanced to find in my pocket that slippery fuzzy
mesh you wear round your neck. The ferry bouquet I gave to Ina Coolbrith. I meant to divide it with Mrs S. Williams, but failed
to find the house on account of seeking it from a different direction than I was accustomed to. All underlined: tranquil thankful
in the Upham family. Finished Snow Banners yesterday. Now on Floods. Prof Phelps Boo aint they lovely The bushel of bloom
I mean. Just came this moment. Never was so blankly puzzled in making a guess before lifting the lid. An orchard in a band
box Who wad ha thocht it? A swarm of bees fifty humming birds would have made the thing complete in margin: I was just going
to say when the Strentzel orchards came that Prof Phelps called yesterday offered me a hundred dollars for a sketch of the
flora of California for that Bancroft biography book, but discovering that I would be taking the job out of blessed old Areana
Kelloggs hands, declined. Cordially yours John Muir.