Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Helen and Wanda [Muir]
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[letterhead]Oct 2 1898My dear Helen & Wanda - We are in Georgia now as you see & not far from where I passed on my long walk to the Gulf of Mexico long ago. We hired a team this morning & a negro boy for a driver & have been riding most all day in the beautiful woods & along the [Coosa?] River & over some pretty steep hills making many stops to examine the rare plants & trees & bushes. There are 3 kinds of hickory trees here & Mr Sargent made the negro boy climb I dont know how many to get specimens of the nuts & it was fun to see him making faces about it. The oaks are very beautiful 7 or 8 kinds grow here, some with leaves2long & slim like those of willows others very broad & glossy & deeply divided or plain. There is a huckleberry bush in these woods that is very tall & may be called a tree in some places. but the berries are small the children call them sparkle berries. I have not seen a single squirrel all day, & very few birds. but I saw hundreds & hundreds of little negro girls & boys laughing, grinning muggins jet black or brown too comical & cunnning for anything This being Sunday many were in their best clothes. & my! if you saw the glory & grandeur of this Sunday best Solomon in all his glory etc was nowhere. Well its late & I must go to bed Tomorrow we go to Tuscaloosa Alabama. In about ten days we will be in New York. & then to Boston & perhaps Adirondacks & home. I do hope you are all well. I expect to get a telegram02477
Location
Rome, Ga.
Date Original
1898-10-02T00:00:00
Source
Original letter dimensions: 24 x 15.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir10_0335-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 10, Image 0335
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
