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
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
3 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
