Creator

Wanda [Muir]

Recipient

[Louie Strentzel Muir]

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[7]tree. since then we have led the pack horses and they have behaved beautifully and in spite of the fact that the Stanford Berkeley packers are both amateurs we have no sore packed horses and have not had to repack anything since that first day. I am as black as any Indian you ever saw and I walk and ride a good deal like one but in the evening around the camp fire we sing college songs and give Berkeley and Stanford yells with a beautiful impartiality while we stir the beans and make bread. Helen [is?] very well and happy and is getting [illegible]. Tomorrow we start up the [illegible]oga [illegible] but I dont know how far we [will?] go, we will go in easy days trips till we get into the snow.Do please write, and let me know what you and Papa are doing, and forward any of my letters to Yosemite and mark them "hold till called for" How I wish that you could be up here under the sugar pines with the rest of us for it must be pretty hot and dusty and lonesome at home. Please don't go and get tired out, anyway and09189

Location

Crocker's [Calif.]

Date Original

[1903] May 28

Source

Original letter dimensions: 25.5 x 20.5 cm.

Resource Identifier

muir13_0586-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 13, Image 0586

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Some letters written to John Muir may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.

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.

Page Number

Page 7

Keywords

John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle

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