Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
[Louie Strentzel Muir]
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Transcription
[2]and when after going again & again up the little crooked stairs to look at my beautiful baby I wake to the sad knowledge that I am indeed unable to touch her with my hand as usual then I begin to think of the distance & the time that are separating us, & I can only pray that God our Father will keep you tenderly & bring us again together with the added blessings of work well done. I was very seasick for two days, probably because of my sickly wearied condition when I came aboard. I was unable to eat at Swetts, felt sea-sick & began to vomit when I awoke the morning before we sailed. But I am well already & look so red & weather beaten you would scarce know me, & I sleep well, & eat well eat like a mountaineer let the [coruin?] toss & tumble as she may,[3]eat ham, eat bacon, eat onions, boiled, onions fried, eat onion – stuffing in chicken, eat onion – hash, & ere I return will no doubt eat polar bears, walruses, seals, whales, gulls, & at least a hundred other rank fishy horrible greasy meats, & mixtures with bland submissive thankfulness We have not been in sight of land since we left the vicinity of the Golden Gate, as we made a straight course across the ocean 2000 miles to [Gonalaska?] We would see some of the snowy volcanic cones now were they not hidden by clouds, (Ill run up to the pilot house & see if they have not come to view since I commenced this letter) No, the clouds are still close down to the water, we
Location
At sea, 50 miles from Oonalaska, [Alaska]
Date Original
[1881] May 15
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20 x 25 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir04_0538-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 04, Image 0538
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
