Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Louie [Strentzel Muir]
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002076to rest & see new sights & eat new food. The Dr. would find cooking here according to his own heart & everybody would grow fat. even old bony me. Mt. Baker makes a find show from here & the long line of the Olympic Range snowy & ice-sculptured. While the honeysuckle cottages & green fields & orchards along the many arms of the bay mingles with the dark spring woods of the Douglass spruce are very picturesque though the town as a whole shows but little life & would be called insufferably dull by booming enterprizing americans. Continue in the meantime to direct your letter to SeattleEveryours John Muir with love
Location
Victoria, B. C.
Date Original
1888 Jul 23
Source
Original letter dimensions: 23 x 14 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir05_1080-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 05, Image 1080
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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