Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Louie [Strentzel Muir]
Transcription
[letterhead]
July 5th 1889
Dear Louie. Here are more snakes that I found in the Call this morning. The curly crooked things have fairly gained the papers & bid fair to crawl through [illegible] all leaving a track never I fear to be obliterated. The Chronicles turn will come next I fancy & others will follow I suppos I ought to write a good post glaciel snake history for the Bulletin. For just see how much better this lady's snakes are than mine in the Examiner "The biggest snakes that ever waves a warning rattle" - Almost poetry compared with "John Muir says they dont eat sheep"
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[letterhead]
"wriggling & rattling aborigines" Im ashamed of my ramshackle Examiner prose. The Indians "tree the game" & hang up his snakeship" "beautifully cured" in "sweet field arrayed in [illegible] green" "& very beautiful they are" etc etc etc. Oh dear how scrawny & lean & mean my snake composition seems worse in its brutal simplicity than Johnie's composition about "A Owle" well it must be born. I'm pegging away - Saw Upshaw today. Dr Vincent is at Palace - havent called on him, too busy - Love to all Don't tell anybody about my poor snakes - Kiss the babes. JM.
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Location
Grand Hotel, San Francisco, Cal
Date Original
1889 Jul 5
Source
Original letter dimensions: 24 x 15 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1889 Jul 5." (1889). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1830.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1830
Resource Identifier
muir06_0121-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 06, Image 0121
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library. 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
Pages
1 page
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
