Title:
Letter from John Muir to Cecilia & George [Galloway], 1875 Jan 26.
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:
Cecilia & George [Galloway]
Date:
1875 Jan 26
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir03_0272-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 33 x 21.5 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Oakland, [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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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:
Original letter in possession of Sarah Muir Galloway Oakland, Feb. 26th, 1875. My dear Cecilia and George: I have just
been reading your letters, all about the spelling and frost and the Santa Claus presents, and I enjoyed it very much. I wish
I could have been among you to give you some more presents. I was up in the wild high mountains among the grouse and squirrels
and wild sheep and didn't enjoy much difference in the days. When I was up in the m't'ns a man took me along a road in a
buggy to show me some gold mines and then he told his sister that he brought a man to the house, a scientific gentleman, and
she said, What is his name? And he answered, John Muir, and she said, Why I know John Muir and wouldn't miss seeing him for
anything. And this lady turned out to be a friend of Merrill Moores' mother, and his aunts, and so I had a visit with her
that was about as good as going to Indianapolis where I used to live. I suppose you may think that some of the letters I
write are rather short, but I have eighteen or twenty to write this afternoon, and I have to be brief. If I was near enough
to talk to you I would tell you about squirrels and wild sheep and deer and bears that live in the mountains, and about trees
300 ft. high and 30 feet thick. This is the first day for me in town, and I feel homesick for the mountains already. Goodbye
to you both, Cecelia and George. I hope you will always be good. Remember me to Anna and all your cousins. With much love,
I remain, Your uncle, John Muir