Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Louie [Strentzel Muir]
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[3]of the parks as guides, kind wise & obliging going about with us taking us on drives to the most interesting parts of the towns & the adjacent country places. We arrived here this evening at supper time & how we eat nowadays, even me!! dinners or suppers of 8 or 10 courses & making a clean sweep of all without question Nearly the whole country lies between the sea level flat & green dotted with cattle villages & windmills & intersected by 1000s of miles of canals & ditches. Everything seems the best of its kind, & the skill & industry displayed in every way explains the aphorism Beats the Dutch. How queer it seems to a mountaineer to live below sea-level you may [clearly?] guess, but though enjoying these famous old world towns
Location
Amsterdam
Date Original
1903 Jun 22
Source
Original letter dimensions: 21 x 27 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir13_0672-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 13, Image 0672
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 2
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
