Title:
Letter from John Muir to [Catharine] Merrill, 1872 Sep 27.
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:
[Catharine] Merrill
Date:
1872 Sep 27
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir02_0920-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 33 x 21.5 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Yosemite Valley
Rights:
Copyrighted
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Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
Original letter returned to Miss M. Merrill . Yosemite Valley, Sep. 27th, 1872. Dear Miss Merrill: Your note of Sep.
1st was received last eve on our return from Hetch Hetchy Valley and the Canyon of the Tuolumne above. Also M errill and I
have each received a letter from Mrs. Moores dated Sep. 9th. I am glad you all feel that it is best for Merrill that he is
in our Sierras, and that Mrs. Moores health is so improved. I shall continue to hope that I shall yet meet you all here to
drink the beauty that wells from a thousand fountains free and available to all the pure in heart. We have had a most glorious
time in the great Tuolumne canyon, wh ich is a Yosemite valley where Godful sublimity more abounds than in this. We have been
absent on this excursion 9 days. I am not satisfied, and will set out again tomorrow alone for a week or two. This will be
too dangerous for M errill s inexperienced limbs, therefore I shall have to leave him here. I am glad you found abundance
of beauty in the sea and that has so enriched your life. Ever your friend, JOHN MUIR