Creator
John [Muir]
Recipient
[Daniel Muir]
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Transcription
[2]is light, and now uncle Dan please hold your sack for a half days "dried [illegible]adint", for I feel full like Jobs comforter. You shall first receive a dish of history well spiced with capital ego's then a generous dessert of heterodox ingredients with a quantum of advisement sufficient for a three score then a short time after I recd your 1st letter, I, with two companions, set out upon a geological & botanical excursion, after many a long counsel and much preparation we capered arround [sic] a room in full harness all ready, and eager for the tramp, as long confined colts for a canter We looked green enough as we turned our backs on the good university, with tent, blankets, hatchet, spoons, books, portable [ presses?] & plant-papers with many et ceteras but my [illegible] our [ certe?] faces were relaxed to the full length many a time before we all got home. We first steered for the Blue mounds not following roads but going "through moor and mire over gude and guide".We often proved with the philosophic shepherd that the properly of rain was to wet, yet we never caught cold.We then steered fro the Wis. river valley which we followed to the Mississippi, here crossing the river we spent a few days in Iowa. When one of the company was called home by a letter, and as we could not proceed very well without him, we severally made for home as we might, we intended to have continued on through Iowa & Minn to the St Anthony falls thence north to lake Superior, thence along its south[ern?] shore
Location
Fountain Lake, [Wisc]
Date Original
1863 Dec 20
Resource Identifier
muir01_0608-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 01, Image 0608
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
The Huntington Library. 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
