Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Louie [Strentzel Muir]
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[4]oblivious for a few moments to geysers & everything else though I escaped without a scratch. As for the weather we had cold rain & hail storms every day excepting one in a ride of 150 miles - & the cooking was awful. My stomach, or organ as grandma calls it soon began to murmur & by the time we reached the Wonder Firehole basin containing the great geysers I was suffering so much that I feared I would have to leave the party & go to bed in some house Then just as the geyser called Old Faithful began to play spouting a huge column of boiling water into the sky my organ began spouting vast quantities of hot acid water in close accord. How the water got into my stomach I dont know. Certainly I never drank it & how the sympathy
Location
Portage City, [Wisc]
Date Original
[1885] Aug 30
Source
Original letter dimensions: 41 x 13 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir05_0392-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 05, Image 0392
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 4
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
