Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Louie [Strentzel Muir]
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01186 5was established between the geysers & organ I dont know but it was all very violent & very painful & very wonderful The last day of the excursion I ate a teaspoonful of rice for breakfast & galloped 30 miles through the cold rain on the roughest quartz mill horse I ever saw, my poor organ seemingly co[illegible]lsed into a hard knot about the size of a walnut. Arriving at the main hotel near the railroad I took off my wet clothes, swallowed a lot of the Drs ground brass in desperation & went to bed – next day better & on the train well as ever. The weather has been cool & cold mostly through Montana & Dakota & [illegible] requiring overcoats & fires in the cars. We are sitting today in Sarahs & Mothers house by a fire. The sky is dark & rainy, all the grass
Location
Portage City, [Wisc]
Date Original
[1885] Aug 30
Source
Original letter dimensions: 41 x 13 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir05_0394-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 05, Image 0394
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 5
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
