Creator

John Muir

Recipient

Helen and Wanda [Muir]

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[Page 3] O how I would like to camp out in these shaggy hills but I must make haste and get back to my babies. I have to go to Norway a week of two and then to Switzerland and the time flies fast. The steamer shakes so much with the machinery I can hardly write. It is a cloudy day and showery at times but the sun just now is streaming mellow

Location

[near] Oban, Scotland

Date Original

1893 Jul 23

Source

Original letter dimensions: 20 x 13 cm.

Resource Identifier

1893 July 23 JM to daughters

File Identifier

MSS 301 Shone

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

1893 July 23 JM to daughters p3

Keywords

John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle

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