Letter from John Muir to Jeanne Carr 1895 Jan 7

Martinez, January 7, 1895 My dear Mrs Carr, We are all glad that you so wisily work & bear up under your bereavement. All this passing from life to life however gloriously hopeful is ever sad, & they are truly blest who have the strength & faith to work on & enjoy on without halting...

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Main Author: Muir, John
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: Scholarly Commons 1895
Subjects:
Environmentalist
naturalist
travel
conservation
national parks
John Muir
history
correspondence
letters
Carr
Norway
glacier
Online Access:https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/4813
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spelling ftunivpacificdc:oai:scholarlycommons.pacific.edu:muir-correspondence-5829 2023-10-01T03:56:09+02:00 Letter from John Muir to Jeanne Carr 1895 Jan 7 Muir, John 1895-01-07T08:00:00Z application/pdf https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/4813 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/muir-correspondence/article/5829/viewcontent/muir00_001_let.pdf eng eng Scholarly Commons https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/4813 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/muir-correspondence/article/5829/viewcontent/muir00_001_let.pdf The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission to publish or exhibit them, see http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Fees-and-Forms-.html John Muir Correspondence (PDFs) Environmentalist naturalist travel conservation national parks John Muir history correspondence letters text 1895 ftunivpacificdc 2023-09-02T22:34:37Z Martinez, January 7, 1895 My dear Mrs Carr, We are all glad that you so wisily work & bear up under your bereavement. All this passing from life to life however gloriously hopeful is ever sad, & they are truly blest who have the strength & faith to work on & enjoy on without halting or hasting like a star, as Goethe says, or like a glacier as I say. All those cases of spirit-sight seem strange and most of us have to go on without it as best we can. Remember me warmly to Mrs Conger and tell her that I always look back with pleasure to the long hearty visit I enjoyed at her house when the family were as yet undivided. I would like to do as you say come to Pasadena with the children & Mrs. Muir but we can’t leave Grandma who as you know is an invalid. I think I told you before of my trip to Norway Switzerland Scotland etc & my visit to Madison when I met all the present professors. Give my kind regards to the boys and believe me Mrs Smith is impatiently waiting for a letter from you Ever your friend John Muir Text glacier University of the Pacific: Scholarly Commons Carr ENVELOPE(130.717,130.717,-66.117,-66.117) Norway
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naturalist
travel
conservation
national parks
John Muir
history
correspondence
letters
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naturalist
travel
conservation
national parks
John Muir
history
correspondence
letters
Muir, John
Letter from John Muir to Jeanne Carr 1895 Jan 7
topic_facet Environmentalist
naturalist
travel
conservation
national parks
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history
correspondence
letters
description Martinez, January 7, 1895 My dear Mrs Carr, We are all glad that you so wisily work & bear up under your bereavement. All this passing from life to life however gloriously hopeful is ever sad, & they are truly blest who have the strength & faith to work on & enjoy on without halting or hasting like a star, as Goethe says, or like a glacier as I say. All those cases of spirit-sight seem strange and most of us have to go on without it as best we can. Remember me warmly to Mrs Conger and tell her that I always look back with pleasure to the long hearty visit I enjoyed at her house when the family were as yet undivided. I would like to do as you say come to Pasadena with the children & Mrs. Muir but we can’t leave Grandma who as you know is an invalid. I think I told you before of my trip to Norway Switzerland Scotland etc & my visit to Madison when I met all the present professors. Give my kind regards to the boys and believe me Mrs Smith is impatiently waiting for a letter from you Ever your friend John Muir
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op_rights The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission to publish or exhibit them, see http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Fees-and-Forms-.html
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