Jeanne C. Smith Carr
Jeanne C. Smith Carr | |
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| Born | Jeanne Caroline Smith 1825 Castleton, Vermont, U.S. |
| Died | December 14, 1903 Templeton, California, U.S. |
| Burial place | Oakland, California, U.S. |
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| Known for | "Carmelita" |
| Notable work | Kindred & Related Spirits, the Letters of John Muir and Jeanne C. Carr |
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Jeanne Caroline Smith Carr (1825–1903) was a prolific American newspaper correspondent and an educator who served as Deputy California State Superintendent of Public Instruction. An expert in botany and horticulture, Carr is chiefly remembered as a mentor of John Muir, with whom she had a public and platonic, yet warm and intimate relationship, their correspondence spanning 30 years.
At her home, "Carmelita", in Pasadena, California, Helen Hunt Jackson is said to have written many pages of her masterpiece, Ramona. Carr was a good friend of Helena Modjeska; and among well-known people who partook of Carr's hospitality were Charles Dudley Warner, Bret Harte, Ole Bull, and Paul Du Chaillu.