Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
Helen [Muir]
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[3]Boston & Manchuria who went with me about half the time I was in India. parted with him at Delhi - for he refused to go again into the Himalaya. On the steamer from Bombay to Suez I made lots of acquaintances & up the Nile a lot more, among these last are three Bells from Philadelphia - brother & sisters who are also going on the Barbarossa to India so I shall have the pleasure of their company as far as Colombo, Ceylon. & on so big a ship. on so long a voyage Port said to Sedney 5 or 6 weeks I'll make many pleasant acquaintances if not friends. How you would have laughed could you have seen & heard me teaching educated Hindus & Parsees & Mahometans what glaciers & sequoias are. Riding donkeys too is funny. & to see wild moneys, the long legged kind, racing along the railroad bank trying to keep up with the train Here are some post cards, Heaven bless you darlings
Location
Cairo [Egypt]
Date Original
1903 Nov 19
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 26 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir13_0878-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 13, Image 0878
Copyright Status
Copyrighted
Copyright Statement
The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission to publish or exhibit them, see http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Fees-and-Forms-.html
Owning Institution
University of the Pacific Library Holt-Atherton Special Collections. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Copyright Holder
Muir-Hanna Trust
Copyright Date
1984
Page Number
Page 2
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
