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Mentor and Friend:
Muir met his lifelong friend Jeanne Carr through her husband, Professor Ezra Carr, while a student at the University of Wisconsin in the early 1860s. She was a fellow botanist, spiritual soulmate, confidant, correspondent, literary critic, advisor, surrogate mother, and matchmaker. Carr introduced Muir to many of her accomplished friends William Keith, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joseph LeConte, Albert Kellogg, Asa Gray, and his future wife Louis Wanda Strentzel. |