Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Louie [Strentzel Muir]
Transcription
Grand Hotel S.F.
July 12, 1889.
Dear Louie
12 & a 1/2 oclock again so that this letter should be dated the 13th. Was at dentist an hour & a half & got a [sweat?] have to go again tomorrow still have done pretty well, 17 pages- now 86 altogether, [Dewing?] is telegraphing like made from New York for Muir's M.S. He will get ere long. Most of the days work was [prosing?] except the last page past now written. Here it is. Speaking of mastas sent from Puget Sound I write - "Thus these trees stripped of their leaves & branches are raised again, transplanted & set firmly erect, given roots of iron bare cross-poles for limbs, & a new foliage of flapping canvas, & then sent to sea, where they go merrily
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bowing & waving, meeting the same winds that rocked them when they stood at home in the woods. After standing in one place all their lives they now like sightseeing tourists go round the world meeting many a relative from the old home forest. Some like themselves arrayed in broad canvas foliage, others planted close to shore head downward in mud, holding wharf platforms aloft to receive the wares of all nations." Imagination enough but I dont know what I'll think of it in the sober morning. I see by the papers that [Swell?] is out of school - for which I am at once glad sorry & indignant if not more -
Love to all
Good night J.M.
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Location
Grand Hotel, S[an] F[rancisco, Calif]
Date Original
1889 Jul 12
Source
Original letter dimensions: 28 x 21 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1889 Jul 12." (1889). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1837.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1837
Resource Identifier
muir06_0149-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 06, Image 0149
Collection Identifier
Online finding aid for the microform version of the John Muir Correspondence http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0w1031nc
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
