Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Wife [Louie Strentzel Muir]
Transcription
Port Townsend, Wash., Aug. 22, 1897.
My dear wife:
I was very glad to receive your letter and clippings which were handed me a few minutes ago on the Queen. We are not to leave here until ten o'clock tonight so much freight has to he got on board. So I feel sure I will get a last word from you in reply to my telegram sent last evening. I'm sorry Grandma continues so weak. Of course you will all try to cheer her up. It must be very hard to lie so long helpless and all the time looking death in the face. I'm glad, too, to learn that Helen's attack of whooping cough was light, and that Maggie is better. It has been very hot hereabouts and I feared you would all be suffering.
Who should step up to me on the wharf when the Queen came in but Alfonso, grinning like a ghoul. And who should be the first to shout my name from the ship? Young! He is on his way to Klondyke to preach. There is a great crowd on the ship but we managed to get berths and had I known long enough beforehand could have got one for Mary.
I'm getting better of my cold and hope to be free of it ere I reach the glaciers.
Ever yours,
John Muir02334
Location
Port Townsend, Wash.
Date Original
1897 Aug 22
Source
Original letter dimensions: 27.5 x 21 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Wife [Louie Strentzel Muir], 1897 Aug 22." (1897). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2003.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2003
Resource Identifier
muir09_1052-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 09, Image 1052
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
