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Letter From John W. Hoyt To John Muir, 1875 Mar 22., John W. Hoyt
Letter From John W. Hoyt To John Muir, 1875 Mar 22., John W. Hoyt
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts and Letters,
Madison, Mar. 22, 1875.
Mr. John Muir, Oakland: Dear Sir,
I have re’d [ nad?] with great interest, and laid before the Academy of Sciences, your valuable “studies in the formation of Mountains in the Sierra Nevada, California”, for which please accept official and personal thanks. By way of reip[illegible]ity, I forward for your acceptance a copy of Vol. II, [illegible] Wis. Acad. You are to be congratulated on the success of your scientific labors and on the [ honorable?] recognition
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you have gained among the scientists of the country. If …
Letter From Louie W. Strentzel To [Jeanne C.] Carr, 1875 Mar 21., Louie W. Strentzel
Letter From Louie W. Strentzel To [Jeanne C.] Carr, 1875 Mar 21., Louie W. Strentzel
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
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Alhambra, March 21, 1875.
Dear Mrs. Carr,
Your letter was duly received, but I waited for further ac- counts of the situation (political), and then expected that mother and I could go to Oakland last week, and so see you there; but as we failed in that, I hope it is still not too late to say I am glad that you declined the nom- ination for School Director. I feel more and more sure that it is best for you to avoid, at least for the present, all [underlined: possible] political com- plications; and so remain untrammeled, 06387 …
Letter From [Ann G. Muir] To Daniel [H. Muir], 1875 Mar 17., Ann G. Muir
Letter From [Ann G. Muir] To Daniel [H. Muir], 1875 Mar 17., Ann G. Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
[4] [illegible] [illegible]. I think there is much more [ilegible] here than in R. Ah[illegible]! ah[illegible]! I am considering the subject of "closing up" that dictionary. but do not "feel to [illegible]" whether to do it on St Ras[illegible] day or not. Ah[illegible]!ah[illegible] I have not yet had the courage to present that prescription to the [illegible] but feel that I must not procrastinate much longer as my [illegible] now amount to the aggregate sum of [illegible]. Ahem! Ahem David says that if you Dan & Emma come to Portage to make a visit he will favor you with a …
Letter From John Muir To David A[Llen] P[Oe] Watt, 1875 Mar 14., John Muir
Letter From John Muir To David A[Llen] P[Oe] Watt, 1875 Mar 14., John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
1419 Taylor St San Francisco Cala March 14th 1875
David A P Watt Esq.
Dear Sir
I send you a few Yosemite ferns I would like you to reciprocate by sending specimens either of Canadian or European ferns to Emily, O, Pelton Brownsville, Yuba Co’, Cala. She can furnish you with the ferns of her special region.
I am yrs truly John Muir
Letter From Mrs. Muir [Louie Strentzel Muir] To Mary, Feb 9, Louie Strentzel Muir
Letter From Mrs. Muir [Louie Strentzel Muir] To Mary, Feb 9, Louie Strentzel Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Dear [Mary] Feb 7 Your welcome letter was duly receive and I fully intended to answer[ing] it just as soon as the dismal fog should take its departure and [leave] allow [us] clear day light enough to write by. That did not occur until [Jan]. 30 and then I was so intent on being thoroughly thawed out, and so glad to behold again the blessed sunshine that I forgot all about [your] writing or work of any kind. But I did not forget you, nor I wanted you here to climb hills and gather moss and hunt ferns ect. And …
Letter From John Muir To Cecilia & George [Galloway], 1875 Jan 26., John Muir
Letter From John Muir To Cecilia & George [Galloway], 1875 Jan 26., John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
[Original letter in possession of Sarah Muir Galloway]
Oakland, Feb. 26th, 1875.
My dear Cecilia and George:
I have just been reading your letters, all about the spelling and frost and the Santa Claus presents, and I enjoyed it very much. I wish I could have been among you to give you some more presents. I was up in the wild high mountains among the grouse and squirrels and wild sheep and didn't enjoy much difference in the days.
When I was up in the m't'ns a man took me along a road in a buggy to show me some …
Letter From [John Muir] To [Jeanne C.] Carr, 1875 Jan 19., John Muir
Letter From [John Muir] To [Jeanne C.] Carr, 1875 Jan 19., John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
[Original letter in mounted set of letters to Mrs. Carr: #23]
To Mrs. Ezra S. Carr
Brownsville, Yuba Co.,
Jan. 19th, 1875.
My dear Mrs. Mother Carr:
Here are some of the dearest and bonniest of our Father's bairns - the little ones that so few care to see. I never saw such enthusiasm in the care and breeding of mosses as Nature manifests among these northern Sierras. I have studied a big fruitful week among the cañons and ridges of the Feather and another among the Yuba rivers, living and dead.
I have seen a dead river - a …
Letter From [John Muir] To Sarah [Muir Galloway], 1875 Jan 16., John Muir
Letter From [John Muir] To Sarah [Muir Galloway], 1875 Jan 16., John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Oakland Jan 16th 1875
My dear Sister Sarah I have just returned from a long train of excursions in the Sierras & find yours & many other letters waiting, all that accumulated for five months I spent my holidays on the Yuba & Feather rivers exploring. I have of course worked hard & enjoyed hard. Ascending Mtns crossing Canons. [ Rambling?] ceaseless =ly over hill & dale plain, & lava bed I thought of you all gathered with your little ones enjoying the sweet & simple pleasures that belong to your lives & loves. I have not yet in all …
Shasta Bees. A Honeyful Region - The Bee Lands - A Summer Paradise. (From Our Special Correspondent.) Sisson's Station Near Mt. Shasta, December 17, 1874., John Muir
John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986)
SHASTA BEES. A Honeyful Region-The Bee Lands-A Summer Paradise. (FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] Sisson's Station, near Mt. Shasta"! December IT, 1ST4. ( The Shasta woods are fall of wild bees, and their honey is exactly delicious. At least such was the quality of roy samples, and no wonder, inasmuch as it was in great part derived from the nectar bells of a huckleberry bog by bees that were let alone to follow their own sweet ways. The hire was a living pine- tree, and tne distance to the honey-bells was only a moment's btssz. Bees themselves could hardly hold the …
Letter From Anne W. Cheney To John Muir, 1875 Jan 1., Anne W. Cheney
Letter From Anne W. Cheney To John Muir, 1875 Jan 1., Anne W. Cheney
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
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return till the first of May, fathers health does not allow him to remain in our cold & miserable climate; I had hoped to go to Cala. this fall more particularly since my dear friend Miss Bakefield has returned, but it is so far away, we do not feel like leaving part of our family behind, & as Harry is in business, & Lu & Rob at school, it is impossible for them to go with us. I wish you could meet Miss Bakefield, for I know you would like her,
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Home Friday Jan. 1st 1875
My …
Letter From [John Muir] To [J. B. Mc Chesney ?], [Ca. 1875]., John Muir
Letter From [John Muir] To [J. B. Mc Chesney ?], [Ca. 1875]., John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
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The flowers I used to watch & love are mostly dead, & all the open gardens are trodden into dust but in crazy nooks, & aloft in the high fenced conservatories a thousand of the fairest & dearest still swell safely. Pat, Pat, Shuffle Shuffle, Crunch Crunch, I hear you all on the sidewalks & sand beds, plodding away, hoping in righteousness & heaven, & saying your prayers as best you can, Above the sand, beneath the fog & fenced by the lake & the marshes Heaven help you all & give you ice & granite
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Studies In The Sierra. No. Vii. - Mountain Building., John Muir
Studies In The Sierra. No. Vii. - Mountain Building., John Muir
John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986)
64 STUDIES IN THE SIERRA. [Jan. was an awful struggle before my straining eyes in the dim light, a flash and report, a groan of pain, and a heavy fall of the two together, while I sat there with limbs paralyzed by fright, hysterically screaming; In another instant the landlady and some policemen entered. They carried the monster away, and I afterward read of his being sent to the asylum at Stockton. Arnot was dead! In the contest his pistol was turned against himself. He had passed years unscathed among hos- tije Indians, yet came home to lose his life. …
Modoc Memories. A Visit To The Lava Beds By Muir The Geologist And Explorer - The Spot Where Gen. Canby Fell - Sad Relics Of The War. (From Our Special Correspondent.), John Muir
John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986)
MODOC MEMORIES. A Visit to tbe I.ava Beds By Muir the Geologist and Explorer—The -Spot where Gen. Canby Fell—Sad Relics of the War, [FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] VISIT TO THE MODOC LAVA BEDS. "The Lava Beds" rendered famous by the Mo.loc war, lie on the southern shore of Kaett or Tule lake, at an elevation above sea-level of about 4,500 feet They are a portion of an ancient flood of dense black lava, dipping north-eastward at a low angle. They are about as destitute of soil as a glacial pavement, and though the surface is generally level, it i3 dotted …
Letter From John Muir To Alice Mc Chesney, 1874 Dec 24., John Muir
Letter From John Muir To Alice Mc Chesney, 1874 Dec 24., John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
[Original letter returned to Mrs. J. B. McChesney]
Strawberry Valley, Yuba Co.,
Dec. 24th, 1874.
Alice McChesney.
My bonnie lassie:
I cannot send you a living bunnie, but here is the very splendidest tail I ever saw.
Happy year, my lassie, to you and to all.
Truly your friend,
John Muir
Letter From [John Muir] To [Jeanne C.] Carr, 1874 Dec 21., John Muir
Letter From [John Muir] To [Jeanne C.] Carr, 1874 Dec 21., John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
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Sissons Station Dec’ 21st 1874
Dear Mrs Carr. I have just returned from a fourth Shasta excursion & find yours of 17th. I wish you could have been with me in Shastas shoulder last eve in the sunglow. I was over on the head waters of the McCloud & what a head! Think of a spring giving rise to a river I fairly quiver with joyous exultation when I think of it. The infinity of Natures glory in rock cloud & water. As soon as I beheld the McCloud upon its lower course I knew their must be something …
Letter From D[Avid] G. Muir To John Muir, 1874 Dec 16., David G. Muir
Letter From D[Avid] G. Muir To John Muir, 1874 Dec 16., David G. Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
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Office of Parry & Muir, Dealers in Dry Goods, Fine Clothing, Boots and Shoes, &c.,
Portage, Wis., Dec 16 1874.
Dear Brother John
You in your last letter to me mentioned money matters I thought today I would try to make a statement. you stated that you did not know the difference between my [illegible] with you & that of [Parry?] & Muir — what I got of you is Signed D E Muir & the Notes or receipts of Parry & Muir are Signed with the firm Name As near as I can make out I owed you …
Shasta Game. Hunting The Wild Sheep And Mule Deer - Exciting Sport Among The Lava Cliffs - John Muir Tells What He Saw And Did. (Special Correspondent Of The Bulletin.) Sisson's Station, Near Mount Shasta, Nov. 29, 1874., John Muir
John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986)
Daily Evening Bulletin SATURDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 12, 1831. SHASTA GAME, Hunting t!ie Wild Sheep and Mule-Deer—Ex- cltins Sport Anions the Lava Cliffs—John — Tells what he Saw and Did. [SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OP THE BULLETIN.) Sisson's Station, near Mount Shasta,) November 29,1874. f The woods and waters of Shasta contain more wild life in that foim which hunters call game than those of aDy other Alpine region I have ever entered. Trout and salmon in the streams, deer and bears in the forests and wild sheep in the topmost rocks. Winter came early thts year, seeming to take even the wild …
Letter From John Muir To [Jeanne C.] Carr, 1874 Dec 9., John Muir
Letter From John Muir To [Jeanne C.] Carr, 1874 Dec 9., John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
[1]
Lissons Station Dec 9th 1874
Dear Mrs Carr
Coming in for a sleep & rest I was glad to receive your card. I seem to be more than married to Icy Shasta One yellow [ mellow?] morning six days ago when Shastas snows were looming & blooming I stept’ outside the barroom door to gaze, & was instantly drawn up over the meadows, over the forests, to the main Shasta glacier in one rushing [ cosmetic?] whizz then swooping to Shasta Valley whirled off around the base like a satellite of the grand icy Sun. I have just completed …
Shasta In Winter. John Muir, The Geologist And Explorer, Ascends It. A Hard And Perilous Undertaking - Among The Glaciers, Lava-Beds, And Storm-Clouds. (Special Correspondence Of The Bulletin.) Sisson's Station, November 24, 1874., John Muir
John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986)
SHASTA IN WINTER. Jolsra Mrair, the Geologist and Explorer, Ascends It. A Bard and Perilous Undertaking-Anions tlie Glaciers, lava-beds, and Storm-clouds. [SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE BULLETIN.] Sisson's Station, November 24,18T4. SHASTA ST0BMS. Snow is falling on ley Shasta. Its ragged glaciers, steep lava-slopes, ana broad, swelling base are all gloriously snow-covered, and day and night snow is still falling—snow on snow. The October storms that began a month ago and extended so generally throughout the State, fell with special emphasis upon the lofty cone of Shasta, weaving and felting its lavish cross of snow-crystals, fold oyer fold, and clothing the …
Studies In The Sierra. No. Vi. - Formation Of Soils., John Muir
Studies In The Sierra. No. Vi. - Formation Of Soils., John Muir
John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986)
eLj mo. }7tf K |3 D6 S3o 1 STUDIES IN THE SIERRA. [Dec S*/ V- it into the next sage, and gittin' over and down on my elbows agin, I crawled along the road after it. And so I worked on till sunrise; and at sunrise, I went to sleep, like a snake, in my own trail. I would have jined church for a drink, or half a drink, o' water; and I knowed' there was a big spring down in the middle o' the valley, about two miles away. But I knowed, jest as well, that I could never …
Studies In The Formation Of The Mountains In The Sierra Nevada, California., John Muir
Studies In The Formation Of The Mountains In The Sierra Nevada, California., John Muir
John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986)
I-.. NAM li.VI. Ill- i' -i.'l . f., \ ,\ !".'l I'- !!Kll'll-illi.-tl l.i-i T ;. -. [t i-.-in - - :.-.- -ii:i - - t-a-i and sometimes west, in North ( there :-: ' ' '|'i,:' "'*'' dip- i-. these dikes occur en a \a-!lv I :i i -j i-r Sf-.-sh in North Carol hi.-!, in (he tm- case formii ; in-idefablc exti !:'. and in/the "flu r. limit -d cut uji !' tra|j i in ( irtirti-eticul \ li.. ..iiitaili -!i:i. -1- to i..ili'ou ;i i..= -- h._ a mile ill -nt iiW-n ion-1! n-ilea! i-Jcnl: and in …
Letter From Mother [Ann Gilrye Muir] To John Muir, 1874 Nov 21., Ann Gilrye Muir
Letter From Mother [Ann Gilrye Muir] To John Muir, 1874 Nov 21., Ann Gilrye Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
[4]I shall be able to say that John is home on a visit - such an event would be hail- -ed with gladness but we will be patient — You were inquiring about Mr Duncan he is well, and goes about the farm as usual, and seldom leaves home. The youngest boy does most of the work — With an earnest prayer that Heavens bests blessing may ever rest down upon you I remain your affectionate Mother ———— 00701 [1] 1874 Portage Nov [ 21?]Dear John I have received your three very interesting and welcome letters. I am very thankful …
Letter From John Muir To Alice [Mc Chesney], 1874 Nov 8., John Muir
Letter From John Muir To Alice [Mc Chesney], 1874 Nov 8., John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
[Original letter returned to Mrs. J. B. McChesney]
To Alice McChesney
Sisson Station,
Foot of Mount Shasta,
November 8th, 1874.
My dear Highland lassie Alice;
It is a stormy day here at the foot of the big snowy Shasta and so I am in Sisson's house where it is cosy and warm. There are four lassies here - one is bonnie, one is bonnier, and one is far bonniest, but I don't know them yet and I am a little lonesome and wish Alice McChesney were here. I can never help thinking that you were a little unkind in sending …
Letter From John Muir To [Jeanne C.] Carr, 1874 Nov 1., John Muir
Letter From John Muir To [Jeanne C.] Carr, 1874 Nov 1., John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
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Evening Bulletin. Wh I suppose you have seen I wonder how you all are faring in your wildernesses educational departmental institutional etc write me a line here in care of Sisson I thin it will reach me on my return from Icy Shasta
Farewell Ever Cordially Yrs John Muir
Love to all Keith & the boys & McChesneys & etc. ————————
Dont forward any letters from the Oakland Office I want only mountains until my return to civil’
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Sissons Station Nov’ 1st 1874
Dear Mrs Carr. Here is icy Shasta fifteen miles away yet at the …
Letter From [Jeanne C. Carr] To [John Muir], [1874 Ca. Nov]., Jeanne C. Carr
Letter From [Jeanne C. Carr] To [John Muir], [1874 Ca. Nov]., Jeanne C. Carr
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
[Fragment of letter of Mrs. Carr ]
[November, 1874]
had lost thirteen pounds! I think he has gained some during the last week, but there is little prospect that he will be able to do anything this winter. John is very steady in a better position than before, Dr. Carr lecturing before Institutes and societies, will go to Los Angeles next month.
Dr. Kellogg called on me last week - has been invited by Secretary Stearns to connect himself with the University as a teacher of Electrotyping! I dare say he will accept. He was very nicely dressed, very cordial …
Salmon Breeding. The Establishment Of Mccloud River. John Muir, The Naturalist Gives A Graphic Description Of What Is Being Done. (Special Correspondent Of The Bulletin.) U.S. Salmon Breeding Establishment On The Mccloud River, Shasta Co., John Muir
John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986)
o, eels, and hornpouts, hogs and cattle.. OBJECTS OF THE COHMISSIONV-. e objects ofjthe United t ly stated, are r First—To prevent tlij 'f destruction of food-flshes; second; '' id #aters to then- primitive or noBt__J " 'jat'fnlness; and, third—To extend -:iUc ' 1- range of the more important food-A -hn-i ciTv,rtn „„,- ,wn., by naturalizing' ._ ...3 New o Ash sand build, it seepied. . ..— .,- ,, cies l iHi.ivim.i could' BSdfto tell upon forests - u a boandSess- me ... Le or. river fisheries arevr"-' Sd as-iaexhanstible. 1 seldom manifests any disposi . ._„ .__j the future; …
Letter From John Muir To [Jeanne C.] Carr, 1874 Oct 7., John Muir
Letter From John Muir To [Jeanne C.] Carr, 1874 Oct 7., John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
[Original letter in mounted set of letters to Mrs. Carr, #94].
Yosemite Valley, Oct. 7th, 1874.
Dear Mrs. Carr:
I expected to have been among the foothill drift long ago, but the mountains fairly seized me, and ere I knew I was up the Merced cañon where we were last year, past Shadow and Merced Lakes and our soda springs, etc. I returned last night. Had a glorious storm, and a thousand sacred beauties that seemed yet more and more divine. I camped four nights at Shadow Lake at the old place in the pine thicket. I have ouzel tales …
Letter From [John Muir] To [Jeanne C.] Carr, 1874 Sep 27., John Muir
Letter From [John Muir] To [Jeanne C.] Carr, 1874 Sep 27., John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
(Consider the grasshoppers how they grow & go)
[drawing of grasshopper in grass] Yosemite Valley Sunday Sep 27th 1874
Dear Mrs Carr.
I have been down bathing in the Langes. I wonder if I will ever know another river like this. After plashing & lasing in the spangling crystal I swam across to examine a section of the bank & found charred bark ten feet below lake & flood deposits. In a vertical portion of the bank I discovered two small frogs of a new species each snugly nestled in a dainty [illegible] from which they could look out over …
Letter From Abba G. Woolson To John Muir, 1874 Sep 27., Abba G. Woolson
Letter From Abba G. Woolson To John Muir, 1874 Sep 27., Abba G. Woolson
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
[4]
the dark winding streets, for your drift dambering over [ wags?] which discouraged my awkward feet! The sidewalks of Boston would be my nature heather. I am worrying here, as ever, about the human race, - that collection of miserable beings which you so utterly ignore in your work. Just now, I am praching the divinity of the body, and striving to le[illegible] women to respect their natural selves sufficiently to wear garments that do not pinch and burden and crucify their suffering frames. In four weeks I shall have a book out on that theme; and I have …
Letter From [Ann G. Muir] To Dan[Iel H. Muir], 1874 Sep 25., Ann G. Muir
Letter From [Ann G. Muir] To Dan[Iel H. Muir], 1874 Sep 25., Ann G. Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
[4]
the girls and I might come to Hamilton — I rode out to Sarahs pleasant home yesterday every thing there looks well and thrifty — they were all as busy as bees they reminded me of [underlined: long] [underlined: ago] Will you please to drop a line at your earliest convenience to let us know what the prospects are – Love from all to you both, hoping to see you soon I remain your affectionate Mother ————
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1874 Portage Sept. 25th
Dear Danl,
I received yours of Sept. 6th and felt highly gratified to know that you were …