Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Family]
Preview
Transcription
[1][letterhead]July 30. 1903.Dear wife & Darlings. It was delightful to get an "All well again & Happy greetings so promptly yesterday morning. I started that cable message to you about noon on the 28th from an old dingy cellar below the hotel & received your reply at the Consulate the next forenoon about 10 o clock, less than a day. This is the first & only word since leaving home you will say it is only 2 1/2 months. but to me it seems as many years so many & strange things & places we have seen & experienced. I'm afraid you have been03277[2]sick. The Sargents have received 100s of letters. One of the last received day before yesterday told that Alice had been operated on for appendicitis. He cabled for news & received reply in about 6 or 7 hrs that she would soon be up & fairly well again. We have just completed a long hard interesting side strip to the Ca[illegible]s & Crimea. About 3 weeks ago we came up here from St Petersburg but instead of stopping went south 1000 miles to Sebastopol, thence by carriage to Galpa along the bluff shore of the Black Sea. Thence by
Location
[Moscow, Russia]
Date Original
1903 Jul 30
Source
Original letter dimensions: 22 x 27.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir13_0736-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 13, Image 0736
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
