Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Katharine Hooker]
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Transcription
[2]not with me, on account of Yellow fever & the most rapidly deadly of the malarial kinds so prevalent up the river.Nevertheless Ive had a most glorious time on this trip, dreamed of nearly half a century, have seen more than a thousand miles of the noblest of Earth's streams & gained far more telling views of the wonderful forests than I ever hoped for. The Amazon as you know is immensely broad, but for hundreds of mles the streams ran so close to the bossy leafy banks I could almost touch the outreaching branches, fancy how I stared & sketched.I was a week at Manaus on the Rio Negro tributary wandered in the wonderful woods, got acquainted with the best of the citizens through Mr Sanford a graduate of Yale, was dined & guided & guarded & befriended in the most wonderful way,
Location
Para, Brazil
Date Original
1911 Sep 19
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Resource Identifier
muir20_0641-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 20, Image 0641
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
