Title:
Letter from John Muir to Alice [Mc Chesney], 1875 May 5.
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:
Alice [Mc Chesney]
Date:
1875 May 5
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir03_0306-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 33 x 21.5 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
San Francisco
Rights:
Copyrighted
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to publish or exhibit them, see
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Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
Original letter returned to Mrs. J. B. McChesney 1419 Taylor St., San Fran., May 5th, 1875. My dear Alice: I have just
received your wee letter, and I was glad to get it and to hear all about your going to school and about your brother and the
chickens. I got down to the city from Mt. Shasta last evening, and I would have been over at your house to give you some
mountain lilies I brought for you had I not been lame. I got my feet frost-nipped on Mt. Shasta in a storm, but they are getting
well and I will be over soon. I wish you could come and get them before they wither. I saw a great many ferns and flowers
growing along the banks of the Sacramento River and around the base of Mt. Shasta, but I had not time to gather them. The
flower that eats butterflies lives up there. I hope you will get the lilies before they wither. I saw a bumble-bee on the
very top of Mt. Shasta high above the storm clouds. I hope the fine strong fellow was not frost-bitten like me. I am, Ever
your friend, John Muir