Letters to a Friend Author:John Muir Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: I have read your "Stone Mason" with a great deal of pleasure. I send it with this and will write my thoughts upon it when I can. My friends here are kind beyo... more »nd what I can tell and do much to shorten my immense blank days. I send no apology for so doleful a note because I feel, Mrs. Carr, that you will appreciate my feelings. Most cordially, J. Muir. Sunday, April 6th, [1867.] Your precious letter of the I5th reached me last night. By accident it was nearly lost. I cannot tell you, Mrs. Carr, how much I appreciate your sympathy and all of these kind thoughts of cheer and substantial consolation which you have stored for me in this letter. I am much better than when I wrote you; can now sit up about all day and in a room partly lighted. chapter{Section 4; Your Doctor says, "The aqueous humor may be restored." How? By nature or by art? The position of my wound will be seen in this figure. The eye is pierced just where the cornea meets the sclerotic coating. I do not know the depth of the wound or its exact direction. Sight was completely gone from the injured eye for the first few days, and my physician said it would be ever gone, but I was surprised to find that on the fourth or fifth day I could see a little with it. Sight continued to increase for a few days, but for the last three weeks it has not perceptibly increased or diminished. I called in a Dr. Parvin lately, said to be a very skillful oculist and of large experience both here and in Europe. He said that he thought the iris permanently injured; that the crystalline lens was not injured; that, of course, my two eyes would not work together; and that on the whole my chances of distinct vision were not good. But the bare possibility of any- thing like full sight is now my outstandin...« less