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Letter From John Muir To [A. H.] Sellers, 1895 Feb 11., John Muir Feb 1895

Letter From John Muir To [A. H.] Sellers, 1895 Feb 11., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[newspaper clipping] Keith's Latest Picture.
William Keith, the noted artist, has just completed for the Press Club a large and very handsome landscape picture of something like the former picture presented by him which was burned in the Pine street rooms, but much more comprehensive and finer in detail. It represents a tangled forest, in which are great live oaks like those seen about Menio. In the opening far away the sunlight bursts through, showing a herd of cattle under some of the great trees, while in another part are a number of women. The brown wild grass about the …

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Letter From Chas. H. Robinson To John Muir, 1895 Feb 10., Chas H. Robinson Feb 1895

Letter From Chas. H. Robinson To John Muir, 1895 Feb 10., Chas H. Robinson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Great Falls Mont.

July 10 1895

Prof John Muir

Martinez Cal.

Dear Sir:

I apply to you as having had great experience in mountaineering for the best equipment for exploration in localities mainly accessible on horseback. In this region there are few Alpine difficulties and the food and sleep problem is the main one to provide for. Do you carry a gun and if so what model? Do you carry a sleeping bag or blankets?

Yours Respectfully,

Chas. H. Robinson

[Yo?]
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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1895 Feb 7., John Muir Feb 1895

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1895 Feb 7., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Martinez, Feb. 7, 1895

My dear Mr Johnson,

I take great pleasure in sending you today by registered mail the hard rubbed M S of Glacier Bay. I have done my best on it & believe I have now a capital article. Like a carpenter building with precious old lumber--
I, in tale adjoining,
Lift old treasures into day;
If not gold or perfect coining,
They are metals anyway:
Thou canst sort them, thou canst sunder,
Thou canst melt & make them one;
Then take that with smiling wonder,
Stamp it like thyself my son. If you like for …

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Letter From A[Lexander] W. Drake To John Muir, 1895 Feb 4., Alexander W. Drake Feb 1895

Letter From A[Lexander] W. Drake To John Muir, 1895 Feb 4., Alexander W. Drake

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

February 4, 1895.

Mr. John Muir,
Martinez, Cal.
Bear Mr. Muir,

The box containing the three sketches of the tributaries of the Muir Glacier, together with the duplicate photograph of Thorns Hill's picture, reached me Saturday and I am much obliged to you, I have already written you about the copyright in the Hill picture, but in the mean time it has been put in the engraver's hands, ft there should be any hitch about it, it would fce too bad. but I do not suppose there will be any difficulty, as you own the picture.
One more favor-will you …

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Letter From John Muir To [A. H.] Sellers, 1895 Feb 2., John Muir Feb 1895

Letter From John Muir To [A. H.] Sellers, 1895 Feb 2., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Feb 2, 1895

My dear Mr Sellers,

Im sorry you are not feeling well, but not that the island trip is to be postponed. It seems every way delightful & kind & I would enjoy it gloriously in your company but I am hard beset with literary work & I have no knack of getting it off my hands in haste. I expect to finish the first article tomorrow, then comes three more & a book. Still after I have done enough to honestly earn a rest I shall be only too glad to go there with you to …

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Letter From J.E. Downer [Et Al.] To [Louisiana] Strentzel, 1895 Feb 2., J. E. Downer Feb 1895

Letter From J.E. Downer [Et Al.] To [Louisiana] Strentzel, 1895 Feb 2., J. E. Downer

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1]

Martinez, Cala. Feb. 2, 1895

To Mrs E. L. Strentzel,--

At our regular monthly official board meeting held Friday Feb. 1st the following resolution was unanimously carried and signed.
Whereas on Christmas last there was returned to the Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Martinez a Christmas Greeting from Santa Claus, a cancelled note of $1000.00 held by Mr. E. L. Strentzel against said Trustees,--Be it Resolved,
That we the Official

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Board extend our heartfelt appreciation for this noble gift, recognizing that back in the heart of the giver the Christlike sympathy, interest and love there …

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Letter From Julia Merrill Moores To John Muir, 1895 Feb 2., Julia Merrill Moores Feb 1895

Letter From Julia Merrill Moores To John Muir, 1895 Feb 2., Julia Merrill Moores

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[Marked "Indianapolis letters"]

946 N. Pa. St.,
Indianapolis,
Feb. 2nd, 1895.

My dear Mr. Muir,
Our dear friend,

Will you take a letter from me in reply to your kind one of the 7th [of] January, instead of one from Janet? We have delayed answering, hoping that she might be able to Write. But somehow she has not accomplished it yet -- and so I set forth. She will write to you when she feels that she can -- for she loves you dearly -- and wants to tell you how happy your letter made her.
We have been at …

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Letter From Helen Leach Reed To John Muir, 1895 Feb 2., Helen Leach Reed Feb 1895

Letter From Helen Leach Reed To John Muir, 1895 Feb 2., Helen Leach Reed

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

74 Huntington Ave.,
Boston, Feb. 2, '95.

Mr. John Muir,
Dear Sir:

Your reputation as a naturalist, and the fact that I have just read with interest your Century communication on forest preservation induces me to trouble you with this letter.
I own 160 acres of redwood land in Mendocino Co. about 10 miles east of Point Arena. I bought it in 1886, hoping at some time to sell it to some mill. I find it very hard, however, to get any satisfactory information from California, 1, as to whether redwood land is in general danger from people who would …

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[Statement From John Muir.], John Muir Feb 1895

[Statement From John Muir.], John Muir

John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986)

Fire, the ax, and svholesale vandalism, have long threatened the forests of the country svith utter destruction ; but now, at this darkest time, the light of a better day begins to dasvn. The first settlers on the shores of America, seeking farms and bread, naturally regarded a tree as a kind of larger weed, to be got rid of as best they could; the forests seemed boundless, and there was no thought of possible evils resulting from their destruction, Nosv railroads, carrying everywhere the rapidly increasing population, ha\'e rendered nearly every tree in the country accessible to the ax …

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Letter From M[Argaret] Hay Lunam To [John Muir], 1895 Feb 1., Margaret Hay Lunam Feb 1895

Letter From M[Argaret] Hay Lunam To [John Muir], 1895 Feb 1., Margaret Hay Lunam

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Westfield, Dunbar,
Feb. 1st, '95.

My dear Cousin John:

I am sure you will be very pleased to hear that we have at last received all the numbers of Picturesque California -- 32 in all, about ten days ago. They have indeed come at a very opportune time to enliven us in the midst of a very severe snowstorm. It has lasted more than a week, and no signs of it abating. All the fields around us are full of snow 6 inches deep. We have not had such quantities of snow luing since 1881.
We take a lesson to …

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Letter From J[Oseph] D[Alton] Hooker To John Muir, 1895 Feb 1., Joseph Dalton Hooker Feb 1895

Letter From J[Oseph] D[Alton] Hooker To John Muir, 1895 Feb 1., Joseph Dalton Hooker

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

The Camp, Sunningdale,
Feb. 1. '95.

My dear Mr. Muir:

I have just finished p. 381 of your delightful volume, and can therefore now thank you for it with a full heart. I do not know when I have read anything that I have enjoyed more. It has brought California back to my memory with redoubled interest, and with more than redoubled knowledge. Above all It has recalled half-forgotten scientific facts, geology, geography and vegetation that I used to see when in California, and which I have often tried to formulate in vain. Most especially this refers to glacial features …

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Letter From A. H. Sellers To John Muir, 1895 Jan 31., A. H. Sellers Jan 1895

Letter From A. H. Sellers To John Muir, 1895 Jan 31., A. H. Sellers

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Direct to East Pasadena, Cal Jany 31 1895

My dear Mr Muir

From all the recent reports that I get from the rebellion in Honolulu I am inclined to think we had better give up or at least postpone the proposed trip to that place. What do you think about it? I have just talked with a gentleman who has returned from there on the last steamer & he thinks the trouble, instead of being over, has but just begun. I would like to see

the Islands but don't care to go them when everything is so unsettled. How …

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Letter From M.H. Myrick To John Muir, 1895 Jan 31., M. H. Myrick Jan 1895

Letter From M.H. Myrick To John Muir, 1895 Jan 31., M. H. Myrick

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Jany 31 1895

Dear Mr. Muir--

Your friends have thought that you knew something about mountains--but, just read the enclosed "Volcanoes are [illegible]!" and just see how much there is yet to learn?! Read it all, carefully, if you can.
As to Lassens', I know something about it. I have been there. There is no crater to Lassen--it is a sharp ridge cone. What the writer calls "Bummer's Hell," is not on the peak at all. It is "Bumpass' Hell," named after Bumpass an old mountaineer, who guided me to the place--it is at least three miles from the …

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Letter From Agnes Kelly To John Muir, 1895 Jan 30., Agnes Kelly Jan 1895

Letter From Agnes Kelly To John Muir, 1895 Jan 30., Agnes Kelly

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Dunbar, 30th Jan., 1895.

Dear Mr. Muir:

I regret having been so long in thanking you for your kind letter of the 29th of Dec., but I have been confined to bed and in the doctor's hands for some weeks from a severe attack of gout over and above my abiding enemies of rheumatism and sciatica, and to crown all a damaged toe which won't hear of a shoe or boot. But I need not tire you with this.
I fear I must have sent you a confused notice of the book you mention. The book I spoke of by …

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Letter From C. S. Sargent To John Muir, 1895 Jan 30., Charles Sprague Sargent Jan 1895

Letter From C. S. Sargent To John Muir, 1895 Jan 30., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

January 30, 1895

My dear Mr. Muir:

Do you remember you told me that when you were in the Kerne River country you got into clumps of White Oaks that were so thick that you had difficulty in prenetrating them? The Oak must have been Quercus Breweri and I wish you would tell me where this place was, at what elevation, etc., and how high the bushes grew. If I remember what you said correctly they were not less thatn twenty feel tall. Any information about the locality of the bushes I shall be glad of.
I am reading …

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Letter From Anna Galloway Eastman To John Muir, 1895 Jan 28., Anna Galloway Eastman Jan 1895

Letter From Anna Galloway Eastman To John Muir, 1895 Jan 28., Anna Galloway Eastman

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Portage, Wis., Jan 28, 1895

My dear uncle John:

Many many thanks for Kenneth's and my share of your Christmas gift. It is so kind and thoughtful of you to remember such a lot of us every year.
Kenneth, the "young Indian" as you were pleased to dub him when you were here last is quite a boy now, with little yellow curls and eyes dark as ever. He has been running round for more than six months, exploring

his little world, a merry happy little fellow.
I received a nice letter from Aunt Maggie Reid tonight, in which …

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Letter From Frank H. Scott To John Muir, 1895 Jan 25., Frank H. Scott Jan 1895

Letter From Frank H. Scott To John Muir, 1895 Jan 25., Frank H. Scott

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

:THE: CENTURY: CO:

:PUBLISHERS:

33: East: 17th: St:(UNION SQUARE)

:NEW-YORK-NY:

Frank H. Scott, Prest.

Chas. F. Chichester, Treas.

William W. Ellsworth, Secretray

January 25, 1895.

Mr. John Muir,

Martinez, Cal.

My dear Mr. Muir,

Mr. Johnson has just shown me the query at the end of your letter of the 10th as to the sales of your book.
We are glad to report that the first edition of fifteen hundred is exhausted and we are getting well started in the second edition, which, considering the fact that the book has only been out a few months, is, we think, doing …

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Letter From John Muir To [Margaret Hay?] Lunam, 1895 Jan 24., John Muir Jan 1895

Letter From John Muir To [Margaret Hay?] Lunam, 1895 Jan 24., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Martinez, California, June 24, 1895

My dear Cousin Mrs Lunam

I was very glad to get your letter. I hope ire this that the summer weather has been kind to you & eased you of your rheumatic pains. I got the paper announcing the death of the Duchess of Roxburgh & hope your church will not suffer thereby. It must be very pleasant to have Susan Gilroy with you. I wish she were here. Tell her she has at least one steadfast friend across the big water & the big continent. I fairly fell in love with her when …

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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1895 Jan 23., John Muir Jan 1895

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1895 Jan 23., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Martinez, Jan. 23, 1895

My dear Mr Johnson,

Here is a resolution introduced by McAllister concerning the Yo National Park.

I am going carefully over the Glacier Bay MS & will soon send it to you Pleae tell Mr Drake that the photograph of the M Glacier will be mailed to him tomorrow but I fear the snow blockade on the mountains will cause considerable delay. It is now snowing gloriously on the Sierra & has been for a week, all trains stalled. ten to twenty feet deep on the level. Heavens how I should enjoy a weeks snowshoeing …

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Letter From John Muir To H. D. Lloyd, 1895 Jan 23., John Muir Jan 1895

Letter From John Muir To H. D. Lloyd, 1895 Jan 23., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, California

June 23, 1895

[in margin: John Muir
Emerson.]

Mr. H.D. Lloyd,

Dear Sir

I hope to write an account of my intercourse with Mr. Emerson in California some time. although it is not easy to make what is called an article out of it. I was with him only about two weeks when he visited Yosemite Valley & the Mariposa Sequoias.

Yrs truly

John Muir

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Letter From Mary M[Errill] Graydon To John Muir, 1895 Jan 22., Mary Merrill Graydon Jan 1895

Letter From Mary M[Errill] Graydon To John Muir, 1895 Jan 22., Mary Merrill Graydon

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[Letter marked “Indianapolis letters”]

288 Central Ave., [Indianapolis]
Jan. 22nd, '95.

My dear Mr. Muir,

I am sure you think all I said about your printing a book was just "talk," seeing I was so long telling you how much I enjoyed it. I am the possessor of two of these books, having read one. I'll just say - one, I purchased, the other was a gift! I insist I enjoy your descriptions more than I would sight - the power to find the vivid word just thrills me, and some sentences I read entranced. I lent one of my …

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Letter From Sallie Kennedy Alexander To John Muir, 1895 Jan 20., Sallie Kennedy Alexander Jan 1895

Letter From Sallie Kennedy Alexander To John Muir, 1895 Jan 20., Sallie Kennedy Alexander

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4]

the spots most unfrequented and beautiful and often rest our horses While we watch the varying glories of the setting sun--and spellbound stay until the evening shadows fall around us. While Nature with us is less grand--she has not been unmindful of the soul-need of her [illegible]
With heartfelt wishes for a very Happy New Year, for your and yours

I remain Sincerely

your friend

Sallie Kennedy Alexander.

[1]

[letterhead]

Washington Jan 20th /95

1207 N St.

My dear Mr Muir.

I can hardly express the glow of appreciation which filled me as I unfolded the wrappings which disclosed …

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Letter From A. H. Sellers To John Muir, 1895 Jan 18., A. H. Sellers Jan 1895

Letter From A. H. Sellers To John Muir, 1895 Jan 18., A. H. Sellers

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

East Pasadena, Cal.,
Jan. 18, 1895,

My dear Mr. Muir:

We were delighted to receive your letter of the 16th inst., for I assure you we have felt quite lonesome since you left us. Instead of "nearing Los Angeles in the rain" as you supposed, we were welcomed by the bright sunshine and that soft fragrant air which is peculiar to this country after rains and when the beautiful hills are clothing themselves in their soft mantles of green. And such green! Well I only wish you were here to enjoy it with me. I find vegetation much farther advanced …

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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1895 Jan 10., John Muir Jan 1895

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1895 Jan 10., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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To. F.C. Please return to R.U.J.

Martinez January, 10, 1895

My dear Mr Johnson

Yours of Jan. 2 just received. Happy New Year to you your family & the Century.
Both papers received the Alaska Trip & Discovery of Glacier Bay. I am at work on them & hope to have them in the shape you wish before the time you mention.
I find that I have already given a description of the Muir Glacier in the Alaska Trip about 1400 words long & I'll be hanged if I see how I can avoid repeating myself in a second …

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Letter From John Muir To [Margaret Hay Lunam], 1895 Jan 17., John Muir Jan 1895

Letter From John Muir To [Margaret Hay Lunam], 1895 Jan 17., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, January, 17, 1895.

Dear Cousin,

I received your letter of the 22d of last month; also the copy of the Scotsman with the review of my book for which I thank you.
I'm glad you find the book interesting. In it I have tried to describe & explain what a traveler would see for himself if he were to come here & go over the ranges & through the forests as I have done. We are having heavy rains this winter. It is raining just now & the streams are roaring, not so loud though as the winds & …

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Letter From A[Lexander] W. Drake To [Louie Strentzel] Muir, 1895 Jan 17., Alexander W. Drake Jan 1895

Letter From A[Lexander] W. Drake To [Louie Strentzel] Muir, 1895 Jan 17., Alexander W. Drake

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

January 17, 1895.

Mrs. John Muir,
Martinez, Cal.
My dear Mrs. Muir,

As I am confined at home by illness, I thought possibly you would pardon this letter by dictation, for I know it will be some time before I am able to write with my own hand, and I want to send you a copy of my Paderewski poem which I promised you, and which you see I have not forgotten. I enclose also a copy of a little poem called "Kensal Green" which is really a dirge that I wrote shortly after I buried my boy in London.I …

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Letter From [Grace Galloway] To John Muir, 1895 Jan 17., Grace Galloway Jan 1895

Letter From [Grace Galloway] To John Muir, 1895 Jan 17., Grace Galloway

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Eastman's Ranch

Jan. 17 1895

John Muir.

Martinez, Cal.

Dear Uncle John;--

I think it is high time I wrote and acknowledged the receipt of your Christmas gift, received some time ago.
It was so kind of you to think of all of your far-away Wisconsin folks.
I'm going to send away and get your

The weather was about 1/2 [bought?] & we glided along the green & yellow shore in comfort. The [lovely?] islands passing in harmonious succession like ideas an a line poem. rain did not hinder us but when the wind was too wild we stayed …

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Muir On Caminetti's Bill. The Author And Explorer Says Its Passage Would Be Disastrous To The Yosemite. 'A Cunning Scheme Of Sheepmen.' It Would Reduce The Park One-Half And Ruin The Forests-The Lesson Taught By France And Spain., John Muir Jan 1895

Muir On Caminetti's Bill. The Author And Explorer Says Its Passage Would Be Disastrous To The Yosemite. 'A Cunning Scheme Of Sheepmen.' It Would Reduce The Park One-Half And Ruin The Forests-The Lesson Taught By France And Spain., John Muir

John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986)

RNING- JANUARY 15, 1895 MUIR ON CAMINETTI'S BILL, The Author and Explorer Says Its Passage Would Be Disastrous to the Yosemite. "ACUNNING SCHEME OF SHEEPMEN." It Would Reduce the Park One-Half and Ruin the ForestsΓÇöThe Lesson Taught by France and Spain. John Muir, the author and explorer, oame to this olty yesterday and is at the Palace Hotel. Notwithstanding that he is very busy with literary work he is intensely interested in the preservation of California's forests, particularly In the Sierra Nevada mountains, where he spent ten years in explorations. He regards the Caminetti bill as a measure that threatens …

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Letter From Mother [Ann Gilrye Muir] To John Muir, 1895 Jan 11., Ann Gilrye Muir Jan 1895

Letter From Mother [Ann Gilrye Muir] To John Muir, 1895 Jan 11., Ann Gilrye Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[in margin: 560
Mother]

01921

Portage Jan.y 11th 1895

Dear John

Your letter of Dec'r 27th arrived safely containing a Draft for money to buy Christmas presents with for all, for which we hereby heartily thank you
I hope you and your family are all well
We are having a very

cold wintry day snowing and blowing a perfect gale while I write
I am much pleased to know that David is getting along so nicely with his work and hope he will soon overcome all his great difficulties
The Book you sent me has been a scourse of very …

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Letter From John Muir To [A. H.] Sellers, 1895 Jan 11., John Muir Jan 1895

Letter From John Muir To [A. H.] Sellers, 1895 Jan 11., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, January 11, 1895

My dear Sellers,

Welcome to the brightest of the bright lands of sunshine, deepest snows, and--deepest--muds. Oh dear I'm sorry, but you know "This is exceptions" Earth & sky one poultice, all the land gone hereabouts to agricultural gravy, boundless endless & sublime, rivaling the best bogs on the continent. bridges like tourists on their banks wandering about on the highways, seeking rest-dry Chicago boulevards.
Your experience on the mountains I admire that was clean & kindly,
Well anyhow I'm delighted you are here & if the railroad bridges stand I'll be down to see you …

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