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Letters to a Friend, Written to Mrs. Ezra S. Carr, 1866-1879

When John Muir was a student in the University of Wisconsin he was a frequent caller at the house of Dr. Ezra S. Carr. The kindness shown him there, and especially the sympathy which Mrs. Carr, as a botanist and a lover of nature, felt in the young man's interests and aims, led to the formation of a lasting friendship. He regarded Mrs. Carr, indeed, as his "spiritual mother," and his letters to her in later years are the outpourings of a sensitive spirit to one who he felt thoroughly understood and sympathized with him. These letters are therefore peculiarly revealing of their writer's personality. Most of them were written from the Yosemite Valley, and they give a good notion of the life Muir led there, sheep-herding, guiding, and tending a sawmill at intervals to earn his daily bread, but devoting his real self to an ardent scientific study of glacial geology and a joyous and reverent communion with Nature. - Summary from the preface of the book.

Year of Publication: 1915Genres: Nature,Travel & Geography,Letters

Running Time: 03 hours 49 minutes 33 seconds(9 chapters)

Language: EnglishRead by: Paul Fleischman

#	Chapter Name
	1866 Paul Fleischman	19:04
	1867 Paul Fleischman	25:45
	1868 Paul Fleischman	15:18
	1869 Paul Fleischman	28:44
	1870 Paul Fleischman	27:23
	1871 Paul Fleischman	17:39
	1872 Paul Fleischman	40:31
	1873-1874 Paul Fleischman	35:10
	1875-1879 Paul Fleischman	19:59