Title:
Letter from John Muir to [J. B.] Mc Chesney, [1871] Sep 8.
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:
[J. B.] Mc Chesney
Date:
[1871] Sep 8
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir02_0520-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 33 x 21.5 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Yosemite
Rights:
Copyrighted
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1984
Transcription:
Original letter returned to Mrs. McChesney . Yosemite, Sep. 8th, 1871 . Dear McChesney: I am glad to know that your
vacations allow you so good a season among the powers of Nature in the mountains or golden plains or by the great sea. I
wish I could get away from the rocks, but my work among them is not done, and I must yet brood and drift among the throbbing
waves of granite. There is but little difference between sea and land,hills and waves,-hills of solid land rise and fall in
geologic seconds,those of water live and die in seconds which are measurable by mortals. I have been twice up in the summits
and tomorrow I start again to study the writings of the ancient ice. I have been waiting for Brewer's Botany of this coast,
but it does not appear, and I send you a few more plants that I am anxious to have named. Very cordially yours, John Muir.
Remember me to the Misses Brigham,- tell them that I wish that they could bear me company in the upper mountains during the
next month.I will be alone. John Muir, Sept.1871 written on back of letter. This supplied date seems correct .