Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
[Annie] Wanda [Muir]
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[4]night. The trees are very tall, some of them about three hundred feet high & very beautiful with glossy green branches & brown cones. & beneath the trees there are many kinds of bushes the [spruces?], two speces are very handsome one with white - & the other with purple flowers. The one with white flowers is very delicate & feathery & fifteen or twenty feet high. Then there is a charming little rose mixed in with them & lots of hazle bushes, with nuts on them & raspberry & blackberry bushes loaded with fruit & we ate lots of them & lots of huckleberry bushes with nice smooth red berries ripe now & juicy But the [salal?] berries are black & they are the most abundant of all. The bushes are not very high the highest only abut as high as your head & most
Location
Seattle, W[ashington] T[erritory]
Date Original
1888 Aug 1
Source
Original letter dimensions: 26.5 x 15.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir05_1104-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 05, Image 1104
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 4
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
