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Letter From John Muir To [Ralph Waldo] Emerson, [1871] Jul 6., John Muir

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brown trunk which makes a magnificent background for their level benches of silvery spray, Among his other friends living far below in his shadow are the [Ceanothus?] & the rose & the lupine & violet & the broad shouldered breckan. And little mosses & lichens also - humblest children of the kingdom, meet King Sequoia & dwell with him & they paint his grand column with their green & gold as big congregations of social flowers color the flutings of a hillside I remember that some of your party remarked the silence of our woods & the absence of birds. …

American Christian Review, Vol.14, No.27, July 4, 1871

American Christian Review

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Letter From Jeanne C. Carr To John Muir, [1871] Jun 30., Jeanne C. Carr

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Oakland, June 30th [l87l].

My dear John,

In our lower world Mr. Henry Edwards, who brings you this note, is accounted one of Nature's truest and most devoted disciples. You will take pleasure in introducing him to your heavenly bugs and butterflies, and the winged dragons that hover over those hot breathing springs "in the beyond". I do not know how long he proposes to sojourn there, but make the most of the time, for he has the keys to the Kingdom.

And I am always

Your friend,
Jeanne C. Carr.

That little bug who inhabits the "slew" between Hutchings …

American Christian Review, Vol.14, No.26, June 27, 1871

American Christian Review

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Letter From [John Muir] To Mrs. [Jeanne C. ] Carr, [1871] Jun 22., John Muir

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[in margin: If you see Mrs Yelverton before you start for the valley I wish you would ask her about a notebook that I left with her last fall & which a have not since heard of]

Thursday eve' June 22d

Dear friend Mrs Carr Amid all Yosemite things there is this constant thought- Your early coming I hope to see the mill- race dry in one or two weeks when I will be ready for the high Sierra & hope that you will be ready about that time for a month of rambling a month containing a greater …

American Christian Review, Vol.14, No.25, June 20, 1871

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

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

Yosemite, June 8th, [1871].

Dear McChesney:

It is long since I wrote you, and still I have not intended to neglect you. You belong to all of my moonlight wanderings at the upper falls. I have been there many times by night and day since seeing you, and you always are present as one who is susceptible of the spiritual influences that so gloriously abound there.
I was up last full moon alone and found several new and most impressive chambers to which i would like to Introduce you. Can you not …

Letter From [John Muir] To [Daniel Muir, Jr], [1871?] Jun 4., John Muir

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& follow my instincts & am most intensely happy Some day you will also behold the Lords Yosemite I went to a noted point at the top of the valley wall today & am a little foot- sore. Yesterday I went alone up the rocks to the upper Yosemite fall & back in (a days work) the night. after doing my days work to enjoy the glory of the fall in the moonlight [illegible] [illegible] ago I was at the summit of Mt. Hoffman with an English man & Scotch man, Farewell Be hopeful & patient & do not …

Letter From [Ann G. Muir] To Daniel [ H. Muir], 1871 Jun 1., Ann G. Muir

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is Belfontaine Columbia Co Wis And now Daniel I trust the Lord will ever keep you, and shield you from harm The girls both join me in sincere love to you hoping you are getting along well. I am anxious to hear from you again - it is possible you may hear from me again this month - if things goes on as I expect May your heavenly Father ever watch over you is the sincere wish of Your affectionate Mother


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June 1st 1871

Daniel Dear

Your letter to me from Racine was very welcome my mind was …

Letter From Sarah [Muir Galloway] To John Muir, [1871] May 30., Sarah Muir Galloway

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May 30, [1871]May 30th. Well John I have done my best to get David to write you a few lines about that land affair but I find I may just as well speak to wind, he says he is too busy to think, the weeds among the corn are growing big and he must away with Nell to cultivate, but he says to tell you that the ferns shall not be disturbed and it shall be called yours until you come home and then you will both see about it, also he says he will see the Ennis boys about …

Letter From Jeanne [C.] Carr To John Muir, 1871 May 24., Jeanne C. Carr

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San Mateo, May 24, [1871].Dear John Muir,My botanical class are all sitting around me busy in putting up their plants, but as this is 'silent hour' I can get in a little conversation with you. Your two good letters were mailed at the same time, and I found not one but many crumbs of comfort therein. I have already written you of Mr. Emerson's enthusiasm for the Valley and for yourself.I see among the newspaper arrivals that of the President of the University of Vermont at Burlington, Lewis Francis, who will doubtless appear among the mob of visitors and is …

Letter From Jeanne C. Carr To John Muir, 1871 May16., Jeanne C. Carr

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May 16th, [187l].Dear John Muir,Coming in last night from a hard day's work in examining classes at the Girls' High School, who should I find but Mr. Emerson, and of course you know the rest. How weariness fled and my delight was full, you do not need to he told. But if there is any joy of angels to be had in the flesh, it is that of finding your soul "confirmed in its faith through the soul of another". And so, dear friend, my joy in you was full, and I laugh to think how they go up to …

Letter From John Muir To R[Alph] W[Aldo] Emerson, [1871 Ca May 8]., John Muir

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With most cordial regards I am yours in Nature John Muir




John Muir 1871


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Yosemite Valley Monday night

Mr R W Emerson

Dear Sir I re'cd today a letter from Mrs Prof E Carr of Oakland Cal' sating that you were in the valley & that she expected to see you on your return. Also she promised that she would write you here & send you to me. I was delighted at the thought of meeting you but have just learned that you contemplate leaving the valley in a day or two Now Mr …

Letter From Jeanne[C.] Carr To John Muir, 1871 May 1., Jeanne C. Carr

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May 1st [l87l]

Dear John:

I think you have another latter from me than the February one to which this is an answer — but never mind —- they are all alike stupid and soulless. Thanks for yours. I am feeling as glad for you as possible since Mr. Emerson will be in the valley in a few days — and in your hands I hope and trust, the dear old singer in the places where we have sung his song. I have not seen him yet, but shall after his return. Have been so driven with work and company …

Letter From John Muir To Dav[Id Gilrye Muir], [1871] Apr 19., John Muir

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[1871] No date Yosemite Apr 19th odds

Dear Dave

I dont know anything concerning my future course farther than that I will not return very soon & If at any time you are near Indianapolis I wish you would pack my things left in my room at Wm Sutherlands on McCartney St. He works in the Hub factory I told Dan to do this for me if he could make it convenient There is a lot of framed pictures. You can have one if you wish it I am still sawing & will likely be here all summer 00533

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Letter From John Muir To [Jeanne C. Carr], [1871 Apr 15]., John Muir

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sympathy I am glad to see that you so healthily & happily look upon Death My own views concerning death have changed very much since I walked with Nature & I almost think of copying some thoughts for you from my note book Mrs Hutchings & I were speaking of death sorrows some time ago She said that in her opinion those were the happiest who possessed the greatest number of large griefs I wish that you were with us among these

Ever your friend John Muir

15 apr 1871

[Original letter in mounted set of letters to …

Letter From [John Muir] To Sarah [Muir Galloway], 1871 Apr 5., John Muir

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[Original letter in possession of Sarah Muir Galloway]In the sawmill,Yosemite Valley, April 5th, l871.Dear Sister Sarah:This is one of the most surpassingly glorious of Yosemite days, and I have suddenly thought to write you. We have rain and storm. The vast column of the upper Yosem[ite] falls is swaying with wonderful ever-changing forms of beauty, and all our mountain walls are wreathed in splendid clouds. In some places a strip of muffy white cloud reaches almost from the bottom of the wall to the top, and just across the meadow the summit of a pine-crested mountain is peering above the …

1871 April 5 Jm To Sarah P1, John Muir

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In the sawmill,

Yosemite Valley, April 5th, l871.

Dear Sister Sarah:

This is one of the most surpassingly glorious of Yosemite days, and I have suddenly thought to write you. We have rain and storm. The vast column of the upper Yosem[ite] falls is swaying with wonderful ever-changing forms of beauty, and all our mountain walls are wreathed in splendid clouds. In some places a strip of muffy white cloud reaches almost from the bottom of the wall to the top, and just across the meadow the summit of a pine-crested mountain is peering above the clouds like …

Letter From [John Muir] To [Jeanne C.] Carr, 1871 Apr 3., John Muir

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[Apr. 3, 1871] [1]Midnight #63O Mrs Carr that you could be here to mingle in this nightnoon glory. I am in the upper Yo-Sem falls & can hardly calm to write but from my first baptism hours ago you, have been so present that I must try to fix you a written thought In the afternoon I came up the mountain here with a blanket & a piece of bread to spend the night in prayer among the spirits of this fall

[2]But now what can say more than wish again that you might expose your soul to the rays …

Letter From [John Muir] To [Jeanne C. Carr], [1871 Apr 3-8]., John Muir

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Pen Sentinel Hotel

A. C. BLACK, Proprietor. [Apr 2-8, 1871] Yo Semite Valley, -------------187


Sunday night I was up in the [moon?] among the lumined spray of the upper Falls, The lunar bows were glorious & the music godful as ever. You will yet mingle amid the forms & voices of this peerless fall. #28 I wanted to have you spend two or three nights up there in full moon & planned a small hut for you, but since the boisterous waving of the rocks the danger seems forbidding at least for you. We can go up there in …

Letter From John Muir To Mrs. [Jeanne C.] Carr, [1871 Mar]., John Muir

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about five feet in depth & as it was not frozen or compacted in any way we of course had a splendid season of wading I wish that you could have seen the edge of the snow cloud which hovered [illegible] so soothingly down to the ground [Pilot peak?] brows - discharging its heaven- begotten snows with such unmistakable gentleness & moving perhaps with conscious love from pine to pine as if bestowing separate & independent blessings upon each In a few hours we climbed under & into this glorious storm cloud. What a harvest of crystal flows. …

Letter From [John Muir] To [Sarah Muir Galloway], [1871 Mar]., John Muir

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[Spring 1871]

In the mill again. The snow all melted there is a violet Three species grow in the valley, white, blue, & yellow You know the fringed blue gentian that grows at the sides of dry meadow I wish you would watch some this summer & send me some seeds also a few seeds of the white water lily & a few of the little blue harebells that are so abundant about you, with a pressed specimen with any little flower easily sent that I know, O how I long to see you all but Heaven only knows my …

Letter From A[Nna] G. Galloway To John Muir, 1871 Jan 15., Anna G. Galloway

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Mound Hill January 15th 1871Dear Uncle John As mother is writing I thought I would put in a few lines with her. I thank you very much for that little flower I think a great deal of it because it came so far. Did you have nice time on Christmas? I am sure I did. I got four presents in my stock- ing viz., an apron from mother, a lead pencil and penholder from Aunt Reid and a card from Aunt Maggie Foster. At was snowing so hard on Christmas that we could not go to meeting The next day …

Letter From Sarah [Muir Galloway] To John Muir, 1871 Jan 15., Sarah Muir Galloway

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as to how we are all getting along David M. Annie or Joanna I suppose write you every once in a while Father and Mother were both well when I saw them on Christmas it is altogether too late to wish you a happy new year nevertheless I send the wish with a fervent prayer that the coming year may be one fraught with many of the best blessings to you. I must close as the children wish to send a few lines. let me hear from you soon As ever yours Sarah



My Dear Uncle John

If you will …

Letter From Mother [Ann Gilrye Muir] To John Muir, 1871 Jan 12., Ann Gilrye Muir

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of my family - you are each held in daily remembrance.

Probably you know that many of our oldest neighbors have died this last summer, Mr. McNeith being one of them, in mercy we are still all spared, Surely the Lord hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad - May the blessing of the Lord be upon you at all times to guide you and keep you - is the sincere prayer of your affectionate Mother



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Farm Jan. 12th '71

Dear John

Your last letter to me gave me much pleasure I have often read it …

A Semi-Centennial Discourse Before The First Congregational Society In Bridgewater, Delivered On Lord's Day, 17th September 1871, Richard Manning Hodges

Histories of Bridgewater & Local Institutions

The Rev. Richard Manning Hodges served as minister of the First Congregational Society in Bridgewater (at the time called the South Parish and now known as the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church of Bridgewater, MA) from 1821 to 1833, after having been ordained there in 1821. On the fiftieth anniversary of his ministry and after a long career in Cambridge and Somerville he returned to his first settlement to address the congregation.

This volume of approximately sixty pages is a complete text of both his discourse and the other elements of a Unitarian religious service of the 1870’s period. The …

A Treatise On The Constitutional Limitations Which Rest Upon The Legislative Power Of The States Of The American Union, Thomas M. Cooley

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In the Preface to the first edition of this work. the author stated its purpose to be, to furnish to the practitioner and the student of the law such a presentation of elementary constitutional principles as should serve, with the aid of its references to judicial decisions, legal treatises, and historical events, as a convenient guide in the examination of questions respecting the constitutional limitations which rest upon the power of the several State ·legislatures. In the accomplishment of that purpose, the author further stated that he had faithfully endeavored to give the law as it had been settled by …

Letter From Therese Yelverton To Kenmuir (John Muir), Circa 1871, Therese Yelverton

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Dear Kenmuir, With this I send your journal. I am just starting for China-and wish very much you were going with me. You ought to have been ready to wander away with me and see all the beautiful places. Don’t forget me as I never shall you. China will [be] my address for the next three months. Oriental Bank, Hong Kong write to me there-The daughters of Ah wah nee will be in print in the fall. How you will laugh when you see it. You and Cosie are the last survivors except the ever lasting hills and vales. I …

American Christian Review, Vol.13, No.52, December 27, 1870

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Letter From [John Muir] To Mrs. [Jeanne C.] Carr, [1870] Dec 22., John Muir

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of Nov 19th is received directed to the "Tuolumne River etc" "You are glad that I am kindly disposed towards South America but a year is a long time, etc" but to me a Yosemite year is a very little measure of time or rather a measureless & formless mas of time which can in no manner be geomet- rically or Arithmetically delt with but Mrs Carr, why do you wish to cut me from California & graft me among the groves of the p[illegible]. Please write the reason This Pacific sunshine is hard to leave. If souls are …