Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Louie [Strentzel Muir]
Transcription
Tacoma Hotel,
Tacoma
Aug. 29th 90
Dear Louie
The answer to my Victoria telegram was a grand & much needed relief. The letter with the terrible news reached me by the Queen on her trip preceding this one but I did not see it until she sailed, for when yours & the childrens letters were handed me the cabin was full of excited visitors all talking & I ran through them hastily without noticing the dreadful news. As soon as the Queen sailed I took a quick reading of them all & when I discovered Helens condition I varily regretted not being able to recal the steamer to take me aboard as she slowly vanished down the Inlet among the icebergs. Then I should have been home 3 weeks earlier. On the way down I received your letter of Aug 1 which was a grand comfort & when the ship reached Nanaimo I managed to catch the train for Victoria in time to telegraph
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& receive an answer the same day as I reached Victoria about 5 hours ahead of the Queen. When the bad news reached me I had just got back from an exhausting trip which had an exciting danger in it connected with that wild man I took with me & wh I will not now attempt to tell then the danger of losing our darling made a burden unbearable & got horribly nervous & lost my appetite no matter what I did. But now I am well again though I still dream more or less. Mr. Loomis left 2 weeks before I did, & Mr. Reid & party intended leaving a week after I left. The Queen is not going to make any more trips north. She will leave here Sunday & go back to Nanaimo to coal then sail direct for S. F. Captain Carroll invited me to stay on the Queen & as
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I would have to wait 4 days for the regular steamer I thought I would accept the invitation & thus save the trouble of transshipping baggage. So you may expect me in 3 or 4 days after receiving this or about the 5th of Sep. Had your telegram been less blessedly reassuring then of course I would have pushed home by rail. I am stopping at the hotel though my things are on the ship, but I mean to sleep on the ship hereafter & try in the quietness to regain the run of my journal which since the bad news was neglicted.
My love over & over again to my darlings & all
John Muir
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Location
Tacoma [Washington]
Date Original
1890 Aug 29
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20 x 12 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1890 Aug 29." (1890). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1943.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1943
Resource Identifier
muir06_0627-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 06, Image 0627
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
1 page
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
