Creator

John Muir

Recipient

Helen [Muir Funk]

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January 31, 1912[letterhead]Near Mozambique & Madagascar where Wanda was supposed to go mountaineering if you'd only ask her.Darling Helen,I hope you are all well. I've had the grandest time imaginable. "Kings may be blest but I'm glorious" etc. Left Capetown, Jan 16th arrived Victoria Falls on the 20th wandered about in the woods that fringe them dripping with spray & through the Baobab woods. Thence to Beira on the east coast 150 miles or so from the mouth of the Zambesi, glorious glacial sculptured mountains hundreds of miles of granite domes, ridges, peaks

Location

Near Mozembique & Madagascar [Indian Ocean]

Date Original

1912 Jan 31

Source

Original letter dimensions unknown.

Resource Identifier

muir20_0793-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 20, Image 0793

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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 1

Keywords

John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle

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