Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
Helen [Muir]
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[4][letterhead]Cairo Nov 19, 1903Hello Helen you all seem so near & yet so far You know I'm used to good big distances. but when I think of the endless thousands of water [illegible]les to Ceylon, Eucalyptus & Kangeroo & Paddy Grogan Land, Page - Page, Tahiti, However I get lonesome. Mercy what a trip this has been what is left as tail of it is so monstrous long.03308[2]But how great has been the compensation - The Crimea, the Caucasus, Russia, Siberia, Manchuria, Korea China, the straits at Singapore, India, the Red Sea & mountains of Arabia Egypt etc etc.When I left the Sargents I was weak & sick & weighed about 100 lbs Now I think I weigh more than when I left home & I always find someone to talk glaciers & sequoias to At Rangoon on the way to India I fell in with a young tiger hunter from Korea &
Location
Cairo [Egypt]
Date Original
1903 Nov 19
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 26 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir13_0876-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 13, Image 0876
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
