"Angel guiding gently": The Yosemite Meeting of Ralph Waldo Emerson and John Muir, 1871

Michael P. Branch

doi:10.1353/wal.1997.0077

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"Angel guiding gently": The Yosemite Meeting of Ralph Waldo Emerson and John Muir, 1871
Michael P. Branch
Western American Literature
The Western Literature Association
Volume 32, Number 2, Summer 1997
pp. 126-149
10.1353/wal.1997.0077
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John Muir’s pencil drawing of “Samoset’ ,’ the sequoia that Emerson named while in Yosemite in May, 1871. The drawing, which Muir mailed to Emerson (probably in his letter of6 July 1871), wasfound inserted into Emerson’s manu script notebook “Naturalist" at page 169. By permission of the Houghton Library, Harvard University. ( '\\WiiYei