Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Louie [Strentzel Muir]
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[1] Vladivostock Aug. 19. 1903Dear Louie After many short stops here & there we are at last on the Pacific having crossed the whole vast breadth of Asia & now you don't seem so dreadfully far. We arrived yesterday morning very tired & dirty, having slept in our clothes the last 8 nights & the heat has been trying 80 to 90° in the cars. & miserable uneatable food at the stations most of the. Here it is delightfully cool - but the food is very poor. I'm resting today while the Sargents are out botanizing. I suppose we will be here a few days longer. Then Sargent wants to the A[illegible] for a day or two, thence back to03292[2]Harbin, thence to Mukden & thence to Peking which will require 8 or 10 days more of rail riding of most wearisome sort, but wit views of wonderful regions their rocks scenery flora people etc by way of compensation. I had made up my mind to leave the Sargents here & go to Japan Shanghai, etc as I long for the cool sea But Sargent advises very strongly against my going off alone & raises all sorts of objections, difficulty of arranging money matters etc. promises not to stay but a day or two in Pekin or hot dirty Mukden (suggestive [name?])
Location
Vladivostok [Russia]
Date Original
1903 Aug 19
Source
Original letter dimensions: 21 x 27 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir13_0788-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 13, Image 0788
Copyright Status
Copyrighted
Copyright Statement
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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
