Creator
[Annie] Wanda [Muir]
Recipient
[Louie S. Muir]
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Transcription
[2]it is rather dry & dusty as you have no doubt guessed by the looks of this paper but the weather has been delightful all the time & the grand domes & cliffs, the big trees and the beautiful river more beautiful ever than either the Merced or Tuolomne make[s?] it an ideal place to camp. One does not realize how many people are here unless one helps wash dishes or doles out soup to the hungry multitude. There are now nearly two hundred people in the canon [diacritic], rather too many to be in one camp but still every thing goes finely & the way things are managed is simply marvelous, there never seems to be any rush or hurry yet all the work of this big camp is done with the regularity & precision of clock work. The three chinamen who do the cooking never seem particularly busy yet we ate 57 big loves of bread yesterday for one meal we had hard tack for the other & every thing else in proportion. Yesterday evening everyone tried to make as much noise as possible in celebrating the glorious fourth & a terrific racket was the result. Then we had a big bon fire rally, fire crackers, music
Location
Camp Colby
Date Original
circa [1904] Jul 5
Source
Original letter dimensions: 25 x 20 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir14_0322-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 14, Image 0322
Copyright Status
Copyright status unknown
Copyright Statement
Some letters written to John Muir may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
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.
Page Number
Page 2
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
