Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Louie [Strentzel Muir]
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Transcription
At Sellers, 3420 Michigan Ave.Chicago, May 29. 1893. 9 A.M.Dear Louie. I leave for New York this evening at 5 o clock, & arrive there tomorrow evening at 7. Where I expect to find letters from you [c/o?] of Johnson at the Century Editorial rooms. The Sellers beautiful home has been made heartily my own, & they have left nothing undone they could think of that would in any way add to my enjoyment. Under their [guidance?] I have been at the fair every day, & have seen the best of it though months would be required to see it all. You know I called it a cosmopolitan rats nest containing much rubbish & common place stuff as well as things novel & precious. Well, now that I have seen it, it seems just such a rats nest still, & what do you think was one of the first things I saw when I entered the nearest of the – huge buildings. – A huge rats nest in a glass case about 8 feet square, with stuffed wood rates looking out from the mass of sticks & leaves etc natural as life. so you see as usual I am [always?] right I most enjoyed the art galleries There are about eighteen acres of paintings by every nation under the sun. & I wandered & gazed until I was ready to fall down with utter exhaustion. The art gallery of the California building is quite small & of little [significance?] not more than a dozen or two of paintings all told – 4 by Keith, not his best, & 4 by Hill not his best.01668
Location
…Chicago, [Illinois]
Date Original
1893 May 29
Source
Original letter dimensions: 30.5 x 21 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir07_1000-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 07, Image 1000
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 1
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
