Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Wanda, Helen & Mama [Muir]
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[1][letterhead]Oct 18 1898Dear Wanda & Helen & MammaIm pretty sleepy, for it was after midnight when I went to bed last night & the bed was only a confounded stuffy jiggling bunk at the top of a sleeping or sleepless car. But this day was so crisp & bright & delightful, so full of lovely & wild scenery it might awaken the dead & do away with sleep altogether. I stopped here on my way from Montreal to the White Mountains & all the scenery was beautiful & must be beautiful all the year but robed with glorious leaf colors as it is now nobody can half tell or even hint it. The town is finely 02486[2]situated on Lake Champlain on high ground on the Eastern shore commanding wide views of the lake with its many islands & the mountains of the Adirondacks region, while the Green Mountains make a grand fence along the Eastern horizon. I got here about noon, had a nice dinner in a fine clean commodious hotel [in margin: 50]which you may be sure I appreciated after the squalled piggy places we had to stop at in the southern states. Then I got a buggy & drove through the pretty town & the hills & along the lake through the midst of Yellow & purple & golden trees & bushes. My! If you & Helen & Mamma could have been with me. Tomorrow I start for Stowe & thence up Mt Mansfield. Thence I go to Mt Washington & the passes and notches of the White Mountains, & 02486
Location
Burlington, Vt.
Date Original
1898-10-18T00:00:00
Source
Original letter dimensions: 23 x 14.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir10_0387-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 10, Image 0387
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
