Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Louie [Muir]
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Transcription
[2]with me, meaning you as Vanderbilt had given our news. Learned that the Cal’ would not sail until this evening & made up our minds to take a drive out in the highways & byways adjacent to the town. While strolling about the streets last evening I felt a singular interest in the [Thlinket?] Indians I met & something like a missionary spirit came over me. Poor fellows I wish I could serve them. There is good eating but poor sleeping here. My bed was but little like our own at home. Met Major Morris the Treasury agent this morning. He is going up with us. He is you remember the writer of that book on Alaska that I brought with me. About 9 o’clock we got a horse & buggy at the livery stable & began our devious drive by going back to the Dakota to call on 1st Officer Griffith & give him a box of weeds for his kind deeds. Then took any road that offered out into the green leafy country How beautiful it is, Every road banked high & emborvered in dense fresh green Tall ferns 6 to 8 ft high close to the wheels, then [sperara?] 2 or 3 species, wild rose bushes, M[illegible], hazel, hawthorn, then a host of young Douglas Spruces &
Location
Victoria, B. C.
Date Original
1880 Aug 3
Source
Original letter dimensions: 27 x 20.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir04_0267-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 04, Image 0267
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
