Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
Helen [Muir]
Transcription
Glacier Bay
Alaska
Aug. 3.
8 O'Clock
P.M.
My dear little Helen
I hope when the steamship comes next time that I will get another nice letter from you. I wrote a letter to Wanda & now I must write one to you. Wanda's letter has a picture of the house we made in this cold rainy country to live in, & here is a picture of the same house showing the chimney. It is not a very warm house for there are many cracks & holes in it & the wind comes into it piping & laughing at us, but we laugh too & never mind the wind when we are dry & have a fire & a bed. The bed is hard but warm & I dont mind the hardness. If you were here I think you would be afraid at first for the big pieces of ice that come from the glacier make a terrible sound & shake the ground & shake the house more than a mile away. But the little pretty flowers are not afraid & the little birds & so you would soon get used to it like them. Papa will be very glad when he gets home to you again & to Wanda & Mamma & he will soon be home. Now I
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send you many kisses & much love & hope that you will be very good to Mamma & Wanda & [Bap?] & grandma. It has been rainy nine days but today the sun came out & this is a beautiful night though it is cold & big black & gray clouds are hanging about the big mountains & the glacier & some of the big pieces of ice floating about in the water look dim & gray & I am glad my little girl is in a warm sunny country & in a cozy house & home. When I come back from a walk that I am going to take I will send you another picture.
send you many kisses & much love & hope that you will be very good to Mamma & Wanda & Bup [illegible] & Grandma. It has been rainy nine days but today the sun came out & this is a beautiful night though it is cold & big black & gray clouds are hanging about the big mountains & the glacier & some of the big pieces of ice floating about in the water look dim & gray & I am glad my little girl is in a warm sunny country & in a cozy house & home. When I come back from a walk that I am going to take I will send you another picture
Location
Glacier Bay [Alaksa]
Source
Original letter dimensions: 28 x 21 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from [John Muir] to Helen [Muir], [1890] Aug 3." (1890). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1937.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1937
Resource Identifier
muir06_0603-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 06, Image 0603
Copyright Status
Copyrighted
Copyright Statement
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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
Pages
3 pages
