Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Annie] Wanda [Muri]
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Monday, Aug. 5 ,1895.Dear WandaI am just about to start afoot down the Tuolumne Canon. Yesterday I climbed Mt. Connoss with two young men who joined me at Yosemite [illegible] Valley and have been good bright manly company. It is about noon and here at the foot of the Big Tuolumne Meadows we part, they returning to Yosemite and I to go alone through the canon to Natch Hetchy and then to Crockers, and thence to Yosemite and home. I suppose I will be about two weeks in the canon. I feel pretty well today after climbing and riding and crackers. My companions will lead back my horse, and I will be far in the wilderness again in the old way, without blankets, but I think I can stand it about as well as ever.The flowers are lovely on the glacier meadows and on the high mountains and you will never know how glad I am to be with them again. I am sitting on a rock by the river and a cascade is chanting gloriously and all the old enthusiasm has come again.I will have a hard grand trip and will be cold a little at night, but will not suffer, for I know well how to use a camp fire. I wrote to Helen before leaving Yosemite and will write your mother when I return. Love to all. How gloriously the river is singing. Ever affectionately your father,John Muir.[Written on a page from his note book]0 3-0/1
Location
[Yosemite, Calif]
Date Original
circa [1895] Aug 5
Source
Original letter dimensions: 17 x 10 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir08_1109-trans.tif
File Identifier
Reel 08, Image 1109
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 2
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
