Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Wife [Louie Wanda Muir]
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Transcription
[2]Four brook home in the Berkshire Hills, I arrived from there in N.Y. Tuesday eve went to Johnson. Staid overnight & dined & breakfasted with hero Hobson a splendid fellow who looks all he is, I raised a big laugh at the dinner table when in talking about my southern trip I said that Hobson's heroism in sinking the ship amid a rain of bullets was nothing to that required in sinking ourself in the beds of southern hotels so dirty they [wire?] & so deadly the smells etc. This forenoon Mr & Mrs Osborn took me on a fine drive. Through the hills & mtns hereabouts. The views of the river & the woods & glens were charming. I'm having a most delicious rest commenced in Gilder's lovely cottage - a rest which is showing me how profoundly tired I was, & how hard & stunning a blow that sickness had dealt me. I'm now feeling like myself again. I expect to be here until Monday then on a day or two later if Sargent is well enough & the way through the south is open I expect to start for Florida & thence home by the
Location
Wing and Wing, Garrison-on-Hudson [N.Y.]
Date Original
1898-11-03T00:00:00
Source
Original letter dimensions: 17.5 x 23 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir10_0437-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 10, Image 0437
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
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 2
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
