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Letter From John Muir To Mrs. [Jeanne C. ] Carr, 1871 Sep Or Oct., John Muir Sep 1871

Letter From John Muir To Mrs. [Jeanne C. ] Carr, 1871 Sep Or Oct., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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strange to cast any kind of an anchor All is so equal in glory so ocean like that to choose our place above another is like drawing dividing lines in the sky. I think I answered your last with respect to remaining here in winter. I can do much of this ice work in the quiet, & the whole subject is purely physical so that I can get but little from books, All depends upon the goodness of ones eyes, no scientific book in the world can tell me how this Yosemite granite is put together or how it …

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Letter From [John Muir] To [Jeanne C. Carr ], [1871 Fall ?]., John Muir Sep 1871

Letter From [John Muir] To [Jeanne C. Carr ], [1871 Fall ?]., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Letter #90

To Mrs. Ezra S. Carr [Autumn, 1871]

...The bottom portion of the foregoing section, with perpendicular sides is here about two feet in depth and was cut by the water. The Nevada here never was more than four or five feet deep, and all of the bank records of all the upper streams say the same thing of the absence of great floods.
The entire region above Yosemite and as far down as the bottom of Yosemite has scarcely been touched by any other denudation than that of ice. Perhaps all of the post-glacial denudation of every kind …

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Letter From David G. Muir To Dan[Iel H. Muir], 1871 Sep 26., David G. Muir Sep 1871

Letter From David G. Muir To Dan[Iel H. Muir], 1871 Sep 26., David G. Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Portage City Wis Sep 26/71

Dear Brother [Dan?]

I enclose you [illegible] [illegible] for $100.00 I suppose you had better make acknowledgement for [illegible] to me so I have [made?] some to John for whole amt I reckon you thought because you did not get this Monday eve that the game had played against you but the fact was that John, [illegible] had not told [illegible] positively [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] let you have it or not but this money he sent he would of let you have it a little long[illegible] the time he did not say

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American Christian Review, Vol.14, No.39, September 26, 1871 Sep 1871

American Christian Review, Vol.14, No.39, September 26, 1871

American Christian Review

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Letter From John Muir To [Clinton L.] Merriam, 1871 Sep 24., John Muir Sep 1871

Letter From John Muir To [Clinton L.] Merriam, 1871 Sep 24., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

To Clinton L. Merriam

Yosemite Valley September 24th 1871

Dear Merriam,

The main trunk glaciers which entered Yosemite by the Tenaya, and Nevada, and South Canons, have been known to many since the publication of the first volume of the California State Geological Survey; but I am not aware of the existence of any published account of the smaller glaciers, which entered the valley by the lower side canons, or indeed that their former existence was known at all.
I have been haunting the rocks of this region for a long time, anxious to spell out some of the great …

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Letter From John Muir To [J. B.] Mc Chesney, [1871] Sep 19., John Muir Sep 1871

Letter From John Muir To [J. B.] Mc Chesney, [1871] Sep 19., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[illegible] [Original letter returned to Mrs.J. B. McChesney].

Yosemite, Sep.19th,0 [1871].

Dear McChesney,

I thank you most cordially for the botanical favor you have done me, and my confidence in your kindness will very likely be shown by sending you more work of the same kind. If it be possible for me to reciprocate in any way I trust that you will not fail to let me know it.
I don't agree with you in saying that in all human minds there is poetry. Man as he came from the hand of his Maker was poetic in both mind and …

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Letter From John Muir To [Clinton L.] Merriam, 1871 Sep 19., John Muir Sep 1871

Letter From John Muir To [Clinton L.] Merriam, 1871 Sep 19., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Camp-fire 8 miles north of
Yosemite Palls, September 1871.

Dear Merriam,

This has been a most glorious day, as full of beauty and joy as sun ever measured, one of God's own mountain units of time, nameless and dateless, big enough, and rich enough for a whole life.
Last evening I camped in a glacier meadow at the head of the Cascades’ Eastmost tributary. The meadow was velvet with grass and compassed with a wall of Wiliamson spruce. I made a great fire and the daisies of the green sod rayed as if conscious of a sun. As I lay …

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American Christian Review, Vol.14, No.38, September 19, 1871 Sep 1871

American Christian Review, Vol.14, No.38, September 19, 1871

American Christian Review

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Letter From David [G. Muir] To Dan[Iel H. Muir], 1871 Sep 16., David G. Muir Sep 1871

Letter From David [G. Muir] To Dan[Iel H. Muir], 1871 Sep 16., David G. Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Portage City Wis Sep 16/71.

Dear Brother Dan

I have heard from John lately & he sent me a little money & he wrote that if you were still hard up to give you some of it We are all well Joanna is boarding with us & going to school Anna is at home We have got in our fall [illegible] a big one too. Did you join that lod[illegible] how are you getting along in the [illegible] are you [illegible] much? how is you intended? give her my respects & tell her Ill be the [illegible]iest brother in law …

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American Christian Review, Vol.14, No.37, September 12, 1871 Sep 1871

American Christian Review, Vol.14, No.37, September 12, 1871

American Christian Review

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Letter From John Muir To [J. B.] Mc Chesney, [1871] Sep 8., John Muir Sep 1871

Letter From John Muir To [J. B.] Mc Chesney, [1871] Sep 8., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[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 …

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Letter From [John Muir] To [Jeanne C.] Carr, [1871] Sep 8., John Muir Sep 1871

Letter From [John Muir] To [Jeanne C.] Carr, [1871] Sep 8., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4]upper rocks only three days & am hungry for exercise already Prof' Runkle, President of the Boston Institute of Technology was here last week & I preached my glacial theory to him for five days taking him into the canons of the valley & up among the grand glacier wombs & pathways of the summit. He was fully con- vinced of the truth of my readings & urged me to write out the glacial system of Yosemite & its tributaries for the Boston Academy of science I told him that I meant to write my thoughts for my own use …

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Letter From John Muir To David [M.] G[Alloway], [1871] Sep 8., John Muir Sep 1871

Letter From John Muir To David [M.] G[Alloway], [1871] Sep 8., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Yosemite Sep 8th

Dear brother David G

I am truly much obliged to you for the pains you have taken concerning that strip of Fountain Lake land If you think that the cattle & hogs can be kept off by any ordinary care & fencing considering the character of the neighborhood I wish that you would offer Ennis from 2 1/2 to 10 dollars per acre as you can agree, but if you think that the stock cannot be fenced out I do not care to have the land at all It is a splendid natural garden

& wish that …

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American Christian Review, Vol.14, No.36, September 5, 1871 Sep 1871

American Christian Review, Vol.14, No.36, September 5, 1871

American Christian Review

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American Christian Review, Vol.14, No.35, August 29, 1871 Aug 1871

American Christian Review, Vol.14, No.35, August 29, 1871

American Christian Review

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Letter From H[Enry] Edwards To John Muir, 1871 Aug 25., Henry Edwards Aug 1871

Letter From H[Enry] Edwards To John Muir, 1871 Aug 25., Henry Edwards

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4]of kindred minds. I have often longed that you were here, [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] H. EdwardsJ. Muir.00551 [1] California [illegible] San Francisco. August 25. 1871My dear Muir Your kind letter, which was so welcome to me, found me confined to my bed with a severe attack of rhematic [illegible], & indeed since I received it, I have been in too much suffering to write you a line in reply. I sat up to day for the first time in nearly two weeks, & while I was sitting for a little while in my [illegible] room our dear friend Mrs …

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American Christian Review, Vol.14, No.34, August 22, 1871 Aug 1871

American Christian Review, Vol.14, No.34, August 22, 1871

American Christian Review

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Letter From John Muir To Clinton L. Merriam, 1871 Aug 20., John Muir Aug 1871

Letter From John Muir To Clinton L. Merriam, 1871 Aug 20., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Yosemite Valley

Aug. 20 th '71

Mr. Clinton L. Merriam

Dear Sir, I am much obliged to you for your letter of Aug. 2d, which is so toned with the spirit of friendliness.I have no objection to your publishing what I have told you of the discovery of Yosemite Creek glacier, trusting as I do in your judgement, and kindness of heart, but had I written forthe public I should have been more full and exact in my figures and descriptions.
I returned a few days ago from Mono Lake and the High Sierra back of Yosemite, having spent a …

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American Christian Review, Vol.14, No.33, August 15, 1871 Aug 1871

American Christian Review, Vol.14, No.33, August 15, 1871

American Christian Review

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Letter From John Muir To [Jeanne C.Carr], [1871] Aug 13., John Muir Aug 1871

Letter From John Muir To [Jeanne C.Carr], [1871] Aug 13., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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I shall hope to hear from you soon, I will come down some of the valley canons occasionally for letters I am sorry that you are so ladin with University cares I think that you & the Doctor do more than your share Do you know anything about this Liebigs extract of meat I would like to carry a years pro- vision in the form of condensed bread or meat & I have been thinking perhaps all that I want is in the market


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Yosemite Aug 13th
Dear friend, I was so stunned & dazed by …

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American Christian Review, Vol.14, No.32, August 8, 1871 Aug 1871

American Christian Review, Vol.14, No.32, August 8, 1871

American Christian Review

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American Christian Review, Vol.14, No.31, August 1, 1871 Jul 1871

American Christian Review, Vol.14, No.31, August 1, 1871

American Christian Review

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American Christian Review, Vol.14, No.30, July 25, 1871 Jul 1871

American Christian Review, Vol.14, No.30, July 25, 1871

American Christian Review

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Letter From Mary [Muir] To [Daniel H. Muir], [1871] Jul 21., Mary Muir Jul 1871

Letter From Mary [Muir] To [Daniel H. Muir], [1871] Jul 21., Mary Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Hickory Hill July 21, 1871.

Dear darling Dr.

With extreme pleasure I now address a few lines to you, And heartily congratulate you on the successful termination of your college course, and am happy to hear of your bright prospect for the future. At present, I am enjoying a good old visit at home, but much regret, that we could not have made our visits at the same time. I received your good, kind letter before leaving Madison, but shall not now attempt to answer it, as it deserves more time and space [in margin: than I can now …

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American Christian Review, Vol.14, No.29, July 18, 1871 Jul 1871

American Christian Review, Vol.14, No.29, July 18, 1871

American Christian Review

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Letter From John Muir To [Catharine Merrill], [1871] Jul 12., John Muir Jul 1871

Letter From John Muir To [Catharine Merrill], [1871] Jul 12., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[original letter returned to Miss M. Merrill].

To Catherine Merrill

Yosemite Valley,

July 12th, [1871].

Dear friend [Catharine Merrill]:

Your sister's note wh[ich] came with the little plants tells that you are about to escape from the frightful tendencies of a Christian school to the smooth shelter of home. I glanced at the regulations, order, etc. in the catalogue wh[ich] you sent, and the grizzly thorny ranks of cold enslaving "musts" made me shudder as I fancy I should had I looked into a dungeon of the olden times full of rings and thumbscrews and iron chains.You deserve great credit …

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Letter From John Muir To [J. B.] Mc Chesney, [1871] Jul 11., John Muir Jul 1871

Letter From John Muir To [J. B.] Mc Chesney, [1871] Jul 11., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[Original letter returned to Mrs. J. B. McChesney].

Yosemite. July 11th, [1871].

Dear McChesney:

I owe you thanks for the ladies you sent me, although I can hardly claim that I made their acquaintance, having been so busy in this confounded mill.
You told me to show them to front seats, and I pointed out the High Altar and offered to lead them up the aisle, but alack! they were ladies and could not go. Some rocks were in the way, and perhaps a snake, and the aisle was crooked and long, and lay at a steep angle, and the …

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American Christian Review, Vol.14, No.28, July 11, 1871 Jul 1871

American Christian Review, Vol.14, No.28, July 11, 1871

American Christian Review

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Letter From John Muir To [Joseph] Le Conte, [1871] Jul 10., John Muir Jul 1871

Letter From John Muir To [Joseph] Le Conte, [1871] Jul 10., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

sheltered place. Well, I had not run four miles ere I found all that I sought & you might have heard a shout in Oakland This glacier was about 12 miles in length by about 5 or 6 ms in width - of the depth I have no satisfactory data, Its course was nearly North & South uniting with the summit glaciers in the valley opposite Hutchings hotel It headed on the Tuolumne divide. The El Capitan Mountain was its western bank & that spur from the Hoffman range wh the Mono trail begins to ascend at the ford of …

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Letter From C.L. W[Aterston] To [Jeanne C.] Carr, 1871 Jul 10., C. L. Waterston Jul 1871

Letter From C.L. W[Aterston] To [Jeanne C.] Carr, 1871 Jul 10., C. L. Waterston

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

71 Chester Square, Boston,
July 10, 1871.

Dear Mrs. Carr,

On my return a few days ago from a journey I found a letter directed by you, and containing two letters from Mr. Muir to yourself. I searched in vain for any word from yourself, and as the letter was postmarked 'Boston' I presume you gave them hurriedly to some friend on his way here. I thank you much for the privilege of reading these letters -- they are poems of great and exquisite beauty -- worthy to be written out of a heart whose close communion with nature springs …

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