Creator
John Muir
Recipient
James Davie Butler
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6 2your soul has always soared high in a clean, healthy sky. And how blest you have been with wife & children. Strange that none of the children has yet set foot in California, though you have been so great a traveler.I have been away more than a year on a long, crooked trip around the world & have seen a little of many countries - The park & gardens (&) art galleries of Europe - broad, fertile Russia - the Crimea, (&) grand forests & glaciers (&) snowy peaks of the Caucasus; The wide, billowy, densely forested Ural mountains, the vast, fertile levels, plains & woods of Siberia; beautiful Manchuria with its charming hills & dales & l[illegible], richly wooded mountains, endless wheat & millet fields great rivers & plains;- Picturesque Japan - the mountainous island-dotted coast of China; the loftiest ice laden summits of the Himalaya & the Deodar forests & rivers, & the swarming cities at their feet temples, etc.; Old Egypt & its one green valley stretching
Location
Martinez, Calif.
Date Original
1904-07-20 00:00
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Resource Identifier
muir14_0420-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 14, Image 0420
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley. 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
