Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
[Annie] Wanda [Muir]
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Transcription
[1][in margin: If you write as soon as you get this or a few days afterwards address me at Helena MontanaAlso address me a letter at Mamoth Springs Yellowstone Park][letterhead]July 5th 1896My dear Wanda.I am now fairly on my way west again & a thousand miles nearer you than I was a few days ago. We got here this morning after a long ride from Chicago. by we I mean Proffessors Sargent, Brewer & Hague & General Abbott--all interesting wise men & grand company. it was dreadfully hot the day we left Chicago but it rained before morning of the 4th & so that day was dustless & cool & the ride across Iowa was delightful That state is very fertile & beautiful The cornfields & wheatfields are 02118[2][letterhead]boundless or appears so as we skim through them on the cars. & all are rich & bountiful looking flowers in bloom line the roads & tall grasses & bushes the surface of the ground is rolling with hills beyond hills many of them crowned with trees I never before knew that Iowa is so beautiful & unexhaustibly rich.Nebraska is monotonously level like a green grassy sea-no hills or mountains in sight for hundreds of miles [illegible] two are cornfields without end & full of promise this year after three years of famine from drouth. South Dakota is dry & desert like until you get into the Black Hills, that02118
Location
Hot Springs, S.D.
Date Original
1896-07-05T00:00:00
Source
Original letter dimensions: 24 x 15 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir09_0282-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 09, Image 0282
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
