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Letter From [John Muir] To Sarah [Muir Galloway], 1875 Nov 2., John Muir Nov 1875

Letter From [John Muir] To Sarah [Muir Galloway], 1875 Nov 2., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Yosemite Valley Nov 2d 1875

Dear Sister Sarah, Here is your letter with the Dalles in it I’m glad you have escaped so long from the c[illegible] & sewing & baking to Gods green wild Dalles & dells for I know you were young again & that the natural love of beauty you possess had free fair play I will never forget the big happy day I spent there in the rocky gargy Wisconsin above Kilbourn City What lanes full of purple orchids & ferns. Aspedium fragraus I found these for the first time. & what hillsides of huckleberries …

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Summering In The Sierra. The Giant Forests Of The Kaweah. Something About The 1875 Sequoia Gigantea Of The South Fork Of King's River-Measurements Of Largest Trees By John Muir. (Special Correspondence Of The Bulletin.) Pluno [Plano], Cal., October..., John Muir Oct 1875

Summering In The Sierra. The Giant Forests Of The Kaweah. Something About The 1875 Sequoia Gigantea Of The South Fork Of King's River-Measurements Of Largest Trees By John Muir. (Special Correspondence Of The Bulletin.) Pluno [Plano], Cal., October..., John Muir

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

.3 IN THE SIERRA. The Gia&t osgsts of the Saweah. ah . ScmethiER obont ttio Soanola Gisaatea of tfce Soutli Fork* of K.ins'9 JSiver—JJIeasarements of Largest 'Trees by John. Muip. [SPECIAL C032ESPONDEJC3 OF THE BULLETIN.] Pit so, Cal, October 19,18T5. The motto, "Where there isn't a way, make way" slips lightly over the tongue of teacher or sckolar where no way is rueded.but to the traveler in these mountain woods t is soon loaded with meaning. There are ways aa:oss the range, old ways graded by glaciers and followed by men and bears, but net a single way, natural or …

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Letter From Jeanne Carr To "Friends," 1875 Oct 22, Jeanne Carr Oct 1875

Letter From Jeanne Carr To "Friends," 1875 Oct 22, Jeanne Carr

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Oakland

Oct. 22. 1975

Dear friends

We are grateful beyond words for these visible tokens of your invisible grace and loving kindness. We mean to deserve it and have only the shadow of regret that our gain should be associated with humiliation to our late opponent. To near our satisfaction. I hope your father is better. Lovingly, Jeanne C. Carr

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Letter From Anne W. Cheney To John Muir, 1875 Oct 18., Anne W. Cheney Oct 1875

Letter From Anne W. Cheney To John Muir, 1875 Oct 18., Anne W. Cheney

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Monday, Oct. 18th, 1875.

My dear Mr. Muir:

I don't wonder you ask if I ever hear you now, for it is so long since I have written you that I have forgotten when it was. Still we do not forget you, and my intentions are always good, but a housekeeper has so many many things to fill up her time (that is if she does her duties well) that I find my time for letter-writing becomes less every year.
You have been so good to write me as often as you have, and if you only knew how much …

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Letter From George W. Pierce To John Muir, 1875 Oct 18., George W. Pierce Oct 1875

Letter From George W. Pierce To John Muir, 1875 Oct 18., George W. Pierce

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

GEORGE W. PIERCE, COUNSELOR AT LAW, 13 PEMBERTON SQUARE. BOSTON, Oct 18th 1875John Muir Esq., Dear Sir, I want to thank you for the pleasure you have afforded me as one of the host who have read your article in the November Harj- per’s. It isn’t possible that you made all those excursions [underlined: a- lone]? I have seen glaciers in [illegible]- [illegible]land, and been on top of Mt. Blane; but never saw anything like what you describe, nor ever read so admirable a description. I had a moose hunt in the At- lantic for September, ’73; and have just …

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Letter From [Ann G. Muir] To Daniel [H. Muir], 1875 Oct 16., Ann G. Muir Oct 1875

Letter From [Ann G. Muir] To Daniel [H. Muir], 1875 Oct 16., Ann G. Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

1875 Portage Oct 16th

Dear Daniel

I gladly avail myself of this opportunity of enclosing for you a Post Office Order for 40 Dollars — I am well aware that this amount is nothing like a compensation for you — but please to accept of it in the meantime I hope this will find you all in your usual health. I hope Joanna is still improving. I often feel thankful that she is under your care.

(Please to acknowledge this)

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I trust that many a blessing from heaven will rest down upon you and yours, for the great …

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Summering In The Sierra. A Bit Of Forest-Study By John Muir. The Royal Sequoia-Its Beauty And Impressiveness-Its Cones And Timber-Doom Of The Coniferae-A Forest Hermit. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Fresno Grove Of Big Trees, Sept., 1875., John Muir Sep 1875

Summering In The Sierra. A Bit Of Forest-Study By John Muir. The Royal Sequoia-Its Beauty And Impressiveness-Its Cones And Timber-Doom Of The Coniferae-A Forest Hermit. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Fresno Grove Of Big Trees, Sept., 1875., John Muir

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

TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 31, 1873 SUMMERING IN THE SIEiftA, A Bit of Forest-Study fey John Mnir. The Royal Seqdtofa—Its Beanty and Impress* iveaioss—Its Cosses anil Tisuber—Dtftfin of the ilonlferae—a Forest Hermit. [FROM 0UB OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Fresno Grove of Big Trees, Sept., 1S75. A few days ago while camped in the fir woods on the head of one of the southmost tributaries of the Merced, I caught sight of a lofty granite dome, called Wa-mello by the Indians, looming into the free sky far above the forest, and though now studying trees, I soon found myself upon its commanding summit. Here …

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Summering In The Sierra. John Muir's Description Of A Wonderful Region. Owens Valley And Its Lava Floods-The Conflict Between Frost And Fire-Mono Valley-Dead Lakes-A Mountain Character. (Special Correspondence Of The Bulletin.) Yosemite Valley,..., John Muir Sep 1875

Summering In The Sierra. John Muir's Description Of A Wonderful Region. Owens Valley And Its Lava Floods-The Conflict Between Frost And Fire-Mono Valley-Dead Lakes-A Mountain Character. (Special Correspondence Of The Bulletin.) Yosemite Valley,..., John Muir

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

Summering in the Sierra John Muir's Description of a Won- ferful Region. Gwens Valley and Its Lava Floods—The Conflict JSeitweea Frost asid Fire— Slono Valley—iead Iakcs—A MoiiEtaia f;fiaraetei\ JSFECIAL COEHESPONEENCE OP THE BULLETIN.] Yosemite Valley, September, 1875. In every country Hie mountains arc fountains, not only of rivers but of" men. There [ore we all are born mountaineers, the offspring of rock and sunshine; and, although according to ordinary commercial melhods of computation it may seem a long way down through lichen ami jpinetree to God-like human beings, yet measured by othar standard's the distance becomes scarcely apore- elable. POET …

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Living Glaciers Of California., John Muir Aug 1875

Living Glaciers Of California., John Muir

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

HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. -;./ NO. CCCVI.-NOVEMBER, 1875.—Vol.. LI. =v// LIVING. GLACIERS OF CALIFORNIA. UIAULOi- mHE Sierra Nevada of Cali- .JL fornia may be regarded as one grand wrinkled sheet of glacial records. For the scriptures of the ancient glaciers cover every rock, mountain, and valley of the range, and are in many places so well preserved, and are written in so plain a hand, they have long been recognized even by those who were not seeking for them, while the small living gla- ciers,,lying hidden away among the dark recesses of the loftiest and most inaccessible summits, remain almost …

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Mount Whitney. Its Ascent By John Muir, The Explorer And Geologist. Different Routes-The Ascent From The East-A Minor Yosemite-Glacier Meadows And Glacier Lakes-Glorious Views-Successive Ascents. (Special Correspondence Of The Bulletin.)..., John Muir Aug 1875

Mount Whitney. Its Ascent By John Muir, The Explorer And Geologist. Different Routes-The Ascent From The East-A Minor Yosemite-Glacier Meadows And Glacier Lakes-Glorious Views-Successive Ascents. (Special Correspondence Of The Bulletin.)..., John Muir

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

Its Ascent toy John Bffuir, the Explorer and Geologist* Different Kontes—The Ascent from t!ie East— A Minor Yosemite—Glacier Meadows and Glacier Shakes—Gtlorious Views—Successive Ascents. [SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE BULLETIN.! Independence, layo County, August 17,1875. Men ascend mountains as instinctively as squirrels ascend trees, and, of course, tbe climbing of Mount Whitney was a capital indulgence, apart from the enjoyment drawn from landscapes and scientific pursuits. We set out from the little village of Independence with plenty of excelsior determination, Bayley, as usual, rejoicing in warwhoops, much to the wonderment of sober passers-by. The massive sun-beaten Sierra rose before us out …

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Summering In The Sierra. A New Yosemite-The King's River Valley. It Is Geographically Described By John Muir. Glorious Scenery, Magnificent Forests, Lovely Waterfalls-El Capitan And Three Brothers Reproduced-The Valley At Night. (From Our Own..., John Muir Aug 1875

Summering In The Sierra. A New Yosemite-The King's River Valley. It Is Geographically Described By John Muir. Glorious Scenery, Magnificent Forests, Lovely Waterfalls-El Capitan And Three Brothers Reproduced-The Valley At Night. (From Our Own..., John Muir

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

Daily Evening Bulletin FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 13, 1875. SUMERIUG SN THE SIEE1 A Sen Yosemite--The King's Siver Yalley. It is G-sograpMcslly Described by 3c3xa Bficir. Glorious Scenery, Magnificent Forests, Lovely Waterfalls—El Capltan and Three Brothers Reproduced—Tile Valley at Night. [FROM OOP. OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Yosemite Valley, August 5,1875. Nature is seldom suspected of beingpoor, for does she not possess all the real estate of the world, to say nothing of unexplored moons and stars ? and has she then only one Yosemite Valley ? It is now nearly a quarter of a century since the Indians were first disturbed by the …

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Summering In The Sierra. John Muir Discourses Of Sierra Forests, Etc.-The Glorious Solitudes Of Nature-Pine Nuts As Food-Tuolumne Meadows-Mono Pass-A Lovely Lake. (Special Correspondence Of The Bulletin.) Mono Lake, July, 1875., John Muir Aug 1875

Summering In The Sierra. John Muir Discourses Of Sierra Forests, Etc.-The Glorious Solitudes Of Nature-Pine Nuts As Food-Tuolumne Meadows-Mono Pass-A Lovely Lake. (Special Correspondence Of The Bulletin.) Mono Lake, July, 1875., John Muir

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

SUMMERING \H THE SIERRA. Joiin Muir Discourses of Sierra Forests, Etc.— The Glorious Solitudes of Nature—Pine Nats as Food—Tuolumne Meadows—Mono Pass—A IiOvely Mountain Lake. [SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF. THE BULLETIN.] Mono Lake, July —, 18TS. Going to the mountains is going home, and gladly we climbed higher, higher, through the freshened piney woods—over meadows, over streamlets, over waving ridge and dome. It was on the morning of the ISth of June that we set out for the summits, from the top of Yosemite walls. The exhilarating snow-storm of the 15th and.Kth being then fully completed and out of sight, as if …

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1875 July 31 Jm To Mrs Carr P1, John Muir Jul 1875

1875 July 31 Jm To Mrs Carr P1, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Dear Mrs. Carr:

I have just arrived from our long excursion to Mount Whitney, all hale and happy, and find your weary plodding letter, containing things that from this rocky standpoint seem strangely mixed – things celestial and terrestrial, cultivated and wild. Your letters set one a-thinking, and yet somehow they never seem to make those problems of life clear, and I always feel glad that they do not form any part of my work, but that my lessons are simple rocks and waters and plants and humble beasts, all pure and in their places, the Man beast …

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Letter From John Muir To [Jeanne C.] Carr, 1875 Jun 31., John Muir Jul 1875

Letter From John Muir To [Jeanne C.] Carr, 1875 Jun 31., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Black's Hotel,
Yosemite, Cal.,
July 31st, 1875

Dear Mrs. Carr:

I have just arrived from our long excursion to Mt. Whitney, all hale and happy, and find your weary plodding letter, containing things that from this rocky standpoint seem strangely mixed - things celestial and terrestrial, cultivated and wild. Your letters set one a-thinking, and yet somehow they never seem to make those problems of life clear, and I always feel glad that they do not form any part of my work, but that my lessons are simple rocks and waters and plants and humble beasts, all pure and in …

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1875 Jul 11 To Mr John Muir P 4 And 1, William Trout Jul 1875

1875 Jul 11 To Mr John Muir P 4 And 1, William Trout

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Front he occasionally exhorts with good effect. Duncan Stirling though often a sufferer physically seems to be mentally vigorous above our expectations he is frequently listened to with much attention. A Bro Wm Mackay cousin to the Mackays of your acquaintance came from Scotland about 6 years ago lives 9 miles from Meaford is a farmer and quite a superior preacher he used to walk from home on Sunday morning and speak for 3/4ths of an hour most ably. Bro Sinclair generally leads not always satisfactorily. Fathers health holds out pretty well he is able to attend meeting …

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Letter From [Ann G. Muir] To Daniel [H. Muir], 1875 Jun 29., Ann G. Muir Jun 1875

Letter From [Ann G. Muir] To Daniel [H. Muir], 1875 Jun 29., Ann G. Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

1875 Portage June 29th

Dear Daniel

Another year has run its course – and we are spared to see another of your birthdays. I congratulate you, and earnestly pray that you may be spared to see many birth days and enjoy much happiness all your life long, I trust that the Lord will reward you a thousand fold for the kindness and care that you have bestowed on you sister Joanna — I would also thank Emma for all the kindness she has bestowed on her – during her long sickness -

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when Joanna left home I did …

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Summering In The Sierra. John Muir Discourses Of Mountain Flora-A Winter Storm In June. Something About The Glacial Period-The Summer Snow Line, Etc. (Special Correspondence Of The Bulletin.) Gentry's Station, Near Yosemite, June 17th., John Muir Jun 1875

Summering In The Sierra. John Muir Discourses Of Mountain Flora-A Winter Storm In June. Something About The Glacial Period-The Summer Snow Line, Etc. (Special Correspondence Of The Bulletin.) Gentry's Station, Near Yosemite, June 17th., John Muir

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

THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 24, 1875. SUMMERING IN THE SIERRA. John Muir Discourses of Mountain Flora—A Winter Storm in June. SomelliiDff about the Glacial Period—The Summer Snow-Line, etc. [SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OP TBE BULLETIN.] Gentry's Station, Near Yosemite, June 17th. . June storms are not altogether rare in the Sierra, yet they are seldom so extensive as the one jast completed. A root or more of snow and hail fell on the mountains adjacent io Yosemite on the 15th and 16th Qltuno, covering flowers and ferns, and loading down the branohes of the Pine trees. On the morning of the 15th, Half …

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Summering In The Sierra. John Muir, The Naturalist, Tells Us Something About Yosemite Valley-How It Impresses The Visitor At Different Seasons. Falls, Streams And Foliage-Some Royal Views-A Touch Of Winter. (Special Correspondence Of The Bulletin.)..., John Muir Jun 1875

Summering In The Sierra. John Muir, The Naturalist, Tells Us Something About Yosemite Valley-How It Impresses The Visitor At Different Seasons. Falls, Streams And Foliage-Some Royal Views-A Touch Of Winter. (Special Correspondence Of The Bulletin.)..., John Muir

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

Summering in the Sierra John Muir, the ' Naturalist, Tells; us ScmetMmg about Yosemiite Valley— How it Impresses the Visitor at SMfferemt Seasons. Falls, SJireanis and Fo3ia.se—Swine Royal Views j —A Touch of Winter. I fSFECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OP THE BULLETIN.] Yosemite Valley, June 14,1S75. THE SUMMER. FLOOD 01' TOURISTS. As soon as the winter snow melts, an ungovernable avalanche of tourists comes pouring pell mell into Yo- semite, flooding tbe hotels, and chafing and grinding against one another like rough-angled bowlders in a pothole. Tbe cause of this disorder, so destructive to all real enjoyment, is the strange misconception that …

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Letter From [John Muir] To [Jeanne C.] Carr, 1875 June 3., John Muir Jun 1875

Letter From [John Muir] To [Jeanne C.] Carr, 1875 June 3., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Yosemite Valley June 3d 1875

Dear Mrs Carr,
Where are you? Lost in conventions electing womens rights & fights & buried beneath many a load of musty granger hay You always seem inaccess= =able to me, as if you were in a crowd, & even when I write, my written words seem to be heard by Mary that I do not like I wish some of your predictions given in your last may come true like the first you made long ago Yet some-how it seems hardly likely that you will ever be sufficiently free, for your labors multiply from …

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Flood-Storm In The Sierra., John Muir May 1875

Flood-Storm In The Sierra., John Muir

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

THE Overland Monthly DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COUNTRY. Vol. i4.—JUNE, 1875. — No. - it. i; - FLOOD-STORM IN'THE SIERRA. BEARS, wild sheep, and other-dea* izensof the mountains are usually driven down out of the high Sierra about the beginning of winter, and are seldom allowed to return before late spring. But the extraordinary sunfulness of last winter, and my eagerness to obtain general views of the geology and topography of the Feather River basin, caused me to make a reconnoissance of its upper tributary valleys in the month of January. I had just completed this hasty survey …

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A Sierra Flood Storm., John Muir May 1875

A Sierra Flood Storm., John Muir

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

A SIERRA FLOODSTQIIM. ronld bd thohlsto j of aslbgle rack from the gr Mind to its lit Is hatd to cbtalnl clear, |rmsrso'!exten!v( and seem-! ow Ipiercslln'g r|ld-drop followed fArtiie.n.foqntiiins. gpnen t vieiva of flUy n s-awiu liely s6lhiipelcall as the one nnd ir consideration, nptrrllhshndlngthofald derived from a then mod observers furnished! wli'i the; best Instruments. Tihi smallest and mist c. reprehensible species of Sierra Storm U Mound growing In tbo - middle region ot ibp-range, somol speclmeis being so local and small thatjwe can go round| their -baits I mountain. pf the cqua- and see them from all …

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Letter To Samuel Chase, Eli T. Tappan May 1875

Letter To Samuel Chase, Eli T. Tappan

Philander Chase Letters

Reverend Tappan requests documents pertaining to the early history of Kenyon College.

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Letter From John Muir To John [Howard] Redfield, 1875 May 15., John Muir May 1875

Letter From John Muir To John [Howard] Redfield, 1875 May 15., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

219 John Muir, 1419 Faylor St San Francisco, Cala. May 15th 1875 ————————

John H [ Redfield?] Esq

Dear Sir

I have not given much time to botany of late being now chiefly engaged in geological studies. However I shall be glad to assist you in making the collection you desire. In two weeks I will set out on a season tour in the

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I was very sorry to hear of [ Toneys?] death He was a truly dear fellow I am cordially yrs John Muir —————


High Sierra & [ well?] will make some collections for you. …

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Letter From John Muir To Alice [Mc Chesney], 1875 May 5., John Muir May 1875

Letter From John Muir To Alice [Mc Chesney], 1875 May 5., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[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 …

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Letter From [John Muir] To [Jeanne C.] Carr, 1875 May 4., John Muir May 1875

Letter From [John Muir] To [Jeanne C.] Carr, 1875 May 4., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

1419 Taylor St May 4th 1875

Dear Mrs Carr -

Here I am safe in the arms of Daddy S[illegible]ett – home again from Icy Shasta & richer than ever in dead river gravel & in snow storms & snow. The upper end of the main Sacramento Valley is entirely covered with ancient river drift & I wandered over many square miles of it. In every peeblec I could hear the sounds of running water. The whole deposit is a poem whose many books & chapters form the geological Vedas of our glorious state I discovered a new species of …

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[The Headwaters Of The Merced.], John Muir Apr 1875

[The Headwaters Of The Merced.], John Muir

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

I875-] ETC. natural outcrop of his education. He could not resist the impulse, under the circumstances." J. W. Gally. Art Notes. The most notable event in San Francisco art circles during the past month has..been ". the opening of the "Schaus Gallery, \ at -. Houseworth's—which contains a larger pro- . portion of good pictures than any exhibition ; ever made here. The largest picture in the collection, and that which first strikes the eye , on entering, is the carnival scene by Coninck. It is a showy picture and not altogether agreeable, being somewhat coarse in charac- ' ' …

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Letter From Jeanne C. Carr To Louie [Strentzel], [1875 Apr 19]., Jeanne C. Carr Apr 1875

Letter From Jeanne C. Carr To Louie [Strentzel], [1875 Apr 19]., Jeanne C. Carr

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Monday,
[Oakland, Apr. 19, 1875?]

Dear Louie,

We were all disappointed in the loss of your father's lecture last week. Capt. Wright, Lecturer of the State Grange being here to go with us. Next Friday I am invited to meet the Normal School in the city and go through the Mechanics Fair, while Dr. Carr will be in Sacramento with the Pioneers. Will your father not be there?
In your letter you spoke of Dr. Carr's coming to Martinez. If you think the M[artinez] people would care to hear an educational address, he will be happy to speak there. He …

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Letter From [Author Unknown] To [John Muir], 1875 Apr 17., Unidentified Apr 1875

Letter From [Author Unknown] To [John Muir], 1875 Apr 17., Unidentified

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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We often thought of you These Hills and Mountains of solid granite rock with narrow valleys [ between?] often decending into lovely lakes was the general [illegible] of the county Beautiful rocky isles and islets without sti[illegible] in the main lake and wild tumultuous hills on the shore was the ever varying [ view?] of the [ tourist?] from Steamboat deck This was the natural home of the Mosses. Such mosses litchun and club mosses as I never saw anywhere else we brought a small cabinet of the different varieties with us From there we spent a year on …

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Letter From John Muir To [Jeanne C.] Carr, [Ca, 1875 Apr 15]., John Muir Apr 1875

Letter From John Muir To [Jeanne C.] Carr, [Ca, 1875 Apr 15]., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

1. Sunday noon

Dear Mrs Carr

I would like to saunter with you to the buckeye but confess I dont feel like plashing into the middle of this Buck masters lake of lassies I would rather revel with the bees in the bloom of strentzels by orchards, but in a day or two I am going to take snuff, Shasta snow-dust & therefore cannot have either buckeye or apple bloom. I am going to the summit of Mt Shasta [deleted: next] sometime this week to be gone eight or ten days & I suppose it will then be too late …

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"Wild Wool.", John Muir Mar 1875

"Wild Wool.", John Muir

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

1875.] WILD WOOL. 361 WILD WOOL. MORAL improvers have calls to preach. I have a friend who has a call to plow, and woe to the daisy sod or azalea thicket that falls under the savage redemption of his keen steel shares. Not content with the so-called subjugation of every terrestrial bog, rock, and moor-land, he would fain discover some method of reclamation applicable to the ocean and the sky, that in due calendar time they might be made to bud and blossom as the rose. Our efforts are of no avail when we seek to turn his attention to …

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