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 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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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

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