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Title: Sunset
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Department
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Publisher: (San Francisco, Calif. : Passenger Dept., Southern Pacific Co.) Menlo Park, CA : Sunset Publishing Corporation
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and bushes, weedsand wild flowers blend naturally. Jeff^ersand his wife, Una, together created it. When they came to Carmel in 1914,Mission Point (which lies a mile to thesouth of the village and just to thenorth of the Carmel Rivers mouth)was wild and windswept and rocky.Una, who had recently returned froma stay in England, saw it as a bit ofCornwall. She and her husband de-cided to build a low rock-house on thecrowning tor and dwell there in bleakisolation, with only the sparse,fragrant wild grass and wildflowers for a garden. But Jeffers was not long outof the School of Forestry at theUniversity of Washington, andit was only natural for him, afterthe house was built and beltedwith a low stone wall, to plant abakers dozen of the local Mon-terey cypresses for a windbreakjust outside the courtyard wall. At top of page the poetstands with his bodyguard Next are views of TorHouse, the poets rockcastle, Carmel-by-the-Sea Una and Robinson Jefferswith John Martin, one ofthe editors of Time
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A few years passed, and the formerlyunfrequented village of Carmel be-came an artists colony. Houses werestrung southward along the bay, en-croaching on the Cornish isolation ofTor House, until, to insure their privac)as well as to afford protection from themistral-like land breeze which sweepsby night down the Carmel River val-ley, they planted a dense grove of treesto the eastward. Over a period of years.Jeffers set out more than 2000 youngtrees — eucalypti, cypresses, a fewpines, one small black walnut (Unasfather brought the nut from Washing-tons tomb at Mount Vernon), onemetrosideros, from New Zealand, adozen Japanese hakea, and severaldozen Acacia lafifolia. In the morningsJeffers wrote poetry, in the afternoonshe watered and tended his trees andtoiled at the building of the 40-footgranite Hawk Tower. While Jeffers was occupied with thegrove outside the courtyard, his wifewas making a garden of the inner area.Two Irish yew trees were placedas sentinels. A carpet of sweetalyssu

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