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

LibriVox recording of Letters to a Friend, Written to Mrs. Ezra S. Carr, 1866-1879 by John Muir. Read in English by Paul Fleischman 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 wh