Title:
Letter from Frances Williamson to John Muir, 1912 May 24.
Creator:
Frances Williamson
Publisher:
University of the Pacific Library Holt-Atherton Special Collections. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies
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Contributor:
John Muir
Date:
1912 May 24
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir20_1006-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 26 x 20 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Guelph, Canada
Rights:
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Transcription:
83 Paisley St. Guelph, Canada May 24th 1912 John Muir Esq Dear Sir In the Spring of one of the late seventies, you
were on the train in Sonoma Co. California between Fulton, and Petaluma. You stopped to look at some wild flowers I a young
girl was carrying back to San Francisco. I did not know then, but I was afterwards told, to whom the flowers had given pleasure.
I soon after went to Yosemite need say no more. In 1899 I read your paper on the Valley, in a magazine. I tried to put some
of the thoughts in concrete form. The coincidence of having put a few thoughts into rhyme on the same date this year emboldens
me to send both to you. California is my Italy newspaper clipping SPRING SONG. It is the growing time: last night The
trees but whispered of their green, But I awoke and saw the light Sift softly in between their sheen. It is the Wonder
Hour of earth- The fairies roam the country still A time of love and blossom-birth, Of balms that heal, of scents that
thrill, And O the clinging memory That fills the robins' questioning call O sweet the South wind's melody, And Nature's
heart-beat measures all. May illegible 4 RICHARD SCRACE. Yours very truly Frances Williamson (Mrs. Bertram Williamson)
Richard Scrace 05202