Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Wanda, Helen, and Momma [Louie] Muir
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[Page 1] br> Oonalaska, July 8, 1899br>
My dear Wanda + Helen and Mama. br> We arrived here this cloudy, rainy, foggy morning after a glorious sail from Sand Harbor on Unga Island, one of the Shumagin group, all the way along the volcano-dotted coast of the Alaska Peninsula and Unimak Island. The volcanoes are about as thick as haycocks on our alfalfa field in a wet year, and the highest of them are smoking and steaming in grand style, Shishaldin is the handsomest volcanic cone I ever saw and it looked like this last evening. [Drawing: about 9000 ft of snow and ice on its slopes Hot and bare at the top], I'll show you a better sketch in my notebook when I get home. A few miles from Shishaldin
Location
Oonalaska [Ounalaska, Unalaska]Harbor [Alaska]
Date Original
1899 Jul 8
Source
Original letter dimensions: 25 x 20 cm.
Resource Identifier
1899 Jul 8 JM to Wanda, Helen,Mamma
File Identifier
MSS 301 Shone
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
1899 Jul 8 JM to Wanda, Helen,Mamma
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
