Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Wanda and Helen [Muir]
Transcription
[14 Aug 1897?]
Union Club,
Victoria, B.C.
My dear Wanda and Helen:
I have just been writing to Mamma and must write a little love letter to my dear babies. I sent you a box of lovely Paton hemlock cones and a spray of larch last Sunday from Vancouver.
The hemlock is what we used to call "Williamson Spruce." I got the cones near the largest of the Canada glaciers in the Selkirk Mountains in a flowery, rocky, boggy, ferny forest, and the larch or tamarack I found on the shore of Lake Agnes in the Rocky Mountains, on the east side of the range. I never saw this kind of larch before -neither did Sargent. It is a curious tree, pale green, small, and throws its branches out in every direction. Bryanthus, Linnaea, and many other charming darlings of the cool high mountains are growing beneath it.
Again and again I said you and your mother must make this trip. It is easily made when the cars are not crowded. I met some friends up there of Col. Sellers and a whole lot of people that knew your papa.
I feel pretty tired and took cold on the horrid cars, but soon I hope to be quite well again. Cheer up Grandma and believe me,
Ever your loving father,
JOHN MUIR
And may God keep you safe and well in His love.
02331
Location
Victoria, B. C.
Circa Date
[ 1897 Aug 16]
Source
Original letter dimensions: 17.5 x 22.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Wanda and Helen [Muir], [ca. 1897 Aug 16]." (1897). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1998.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1998
Resource Identifier
muir09_1032-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 09, Image 1032
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
3 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
