Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Joseph Hooker
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Martinez California Oct. 20, 1904 Dear Sir Joseph, When I got home from my long journey abroad, none of the letters awaiting me gave greater pleasure than Mr Nicholson's, which assured me that you were again in your usual good health. How sorry Prof. Sargent and I were on leaving London last year without seeing you, you must know. We had an interesting trip, though far too short, through Southern Russia - the Crimea - along the Black Sea, to Batoum and Tiflis and across the Caucasus by the Dariel Pass and North to Moscow. Thence across the Urals, through vast fertile Siberia and beautiful Manchuria. We saw a good deal of Manchuria about Lake Baikal and Harbin, the Kingdom Mountains, the Amoor and Vladivostok. I wanted to see more of the Ural mountains and their dense forests than could be seen from the railroad; but Prof. Sargent would not stop even for a day. Leaving Siberia and Vladivostock we sailed to Shanghai, where we separated, Prof Sargent going for a few days to Pekin [Peking] and
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1904 Oct 20
Resource Identifier
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. JD Hooker MUE-PIT
File Identifier
muir14_0621-ad-1
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
Documents reproduced with the kind permission of the Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Copyright Holder
Muir-Hanna Trust
Copyright Date
1984
Page Number
JDH.2.16 f 37
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
