Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Mary [Muir Hand]
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[2]Four of Daves friends arrived in our little valley a week ago & seem greatly delighted with the exchange of the snow & the blue toes blue nose frosts of fair Portage, for the balmy sunshine of California December & its fresh grass & flowers & lark song- I heard you had a severe attack of illness. its a tough world when so i[illegible]ent a body as you should suffer so Thank Heaven you are safely well again. Those boys must be men nearly unless stunted by those savage Kearney winds, & your lassie too she must be growing unless kept down by the wind[3]Tell Willis he had better come away to a better country I'm not joking, I really think he had better "come out of that" I had a good time in Europe & New York, but it seemed very hard work to travel in a civilized tourist way & I got very tired of it. In New York I saw most of the makers of our current literature & scientists. was taken to the clubs. & had enough & more of champagne dinners etc Went up the Hudson - to Boston - Cambridge Concord where I dined with Ralph Waldo Emersons sons- then went to Thoreau's Walden Pond etc. Went pretty thouroghly
Location
Martinez, Calif.
Date Original
1893 Dec 19
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Resource Identifier
muir07_1433-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 07, Image 1433
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
John Muir National Historic Site. 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
