Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Katharine Hooker]
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[4]Im glad you are not going to sell the Los Angeles garret & garden. Why, I hardly know. Perhaps because Im weary & lonesome with a long hot journey ahead & I feel as if I was again bidding you all goodby. I think you may send me a word or two to Cape Town, c/o the American Consul. It would not be lost for it would follow me.Its perfectly marvelous how kind hundreds of people have been to this wanderer & the new beauty stored up is far beyond telling. Give my love to Marian Maude & Ellie & all who love you. I wish you would write a line now & then to darling Helen. She has a little bungalow of her own now at 233 Formosa Avenue. Hollywood Cal.It's growing late & I've miserable packing to do.GoodnightAnd once more, dear dear friend GoodbyJohn Muir[1][letterhead]Dec. 6 1911My dear friendYour letter of Oct. 4 from San Francisco was forwarded from Para to Buenos Aires & received there at the American Consulate. Your & Marian's letter dated Aug. 7th were received at Para, not having been quite in time to reach me before I sailed, but forwarded by Mrs. Osborn. I can't think how I could have failed to acknowledge them I have them & others with me & they have been read times numberless When I was feeling lonely on my strange wanderings in all sorts of places.But I'm now done with this glorious continent at least for the present, as far as
Location
Montevideo [Uruguay]
Date Original
1911 Dec 6
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Resource Identifier
muir20_0733-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 20, Image 0733
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 1
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
