Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
Helen [Muir]
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Transcription
[3]I am enjoying a fine rest. I have "the blue room" in this charming home & it has the daintiest linen & embroidery I ever saw. The bed is so soft & fine I like to lie awake to enjoy it instead of sleeping a servant brings me a cup of coffee before I rise. This morning when I was sipping coffee in bed, a red squirrel looking in the window at me from[in margin: 54]a big tulip tree & seemed to be saying as he watched me "Oh John Muir! Camping tramping treeclimbing scrambler! Churr, Churr why have you left us, chip churr who would have thought it[1][letterhead]November 4. 1898My darling Helen,This is a fine calm thoughtful morning, bracing and sparkling, just the least touch of hoarfrost quickly melting where the sunbeams, streaming through between the trees, fall in yellow plashes and lances on the lawns. Every now and then a red or yellow leaf comes swirling down, though there is not the slightest breeze. Most of the hickories are leafless now, but the big buds on the
Location
Wing and Wing, Garrison-on-Hudson [N.Y.]
Date Original
1898-11-04T00:00:00
Source
Original letter dimensions: 18 x 23 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir10_0443-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 10, Image 0443
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 1
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
