Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Helen [Muir]
Transcription
[letterhead]
Montana Sep 10 1898
My dear Helen
I am now in the Rocky Mountains, going through a forest of beautiful larches on the bank of a branch of the Kootenai River. Mixed with the larch there are a good many Yellow Pines & [tree?] leaved & Mosentine pines & Rocky Mountain Spruce & birch & small maples. It is a calm sunny day & rather warm but I am enjoying the trip very much. It's hopeless to try to tell you about it with horrid pen & the swaying jolting jumbling car I had a fine view of Mt Shasta & the Rogue River Valley from peaches at Ashland. & fine company who of course kept me talking but my throat stood the strain pretty well. At Portland I saw & had a long interesting talk with Lieut Wood about his visit to Glacier Bay two years before mine
The views up the Columbia were very fine the maples read & yellow
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& the sunset purple. This morning when I looked out I was in a big wheatfield. We were passing through the farmers Palouse country - the most fertile I know of in all the interior of the continent The ride to along the Pend D Oreille River was charming - such a fine deep blue flood of cool water flowing past rocks through the beautiful forests.
I suppose Ill be in Duluth next Monday. & Tuesday start down the lakes to Buffalo. When I get to Duluth I'll telegraph if I get a chance.
I hope you & your mamma & Wanda are well. Give them my love. I hope too that Mesopotamia Tawny etc are well & that the house is not [illegible] by burned until the end of the world or near it. When you go over to Maggies give her my love. Goodbye dear
Ever Your loving Papa.
John Muir
Location
Montana
Date Original
1898 Sep 10
Source
Original letter dimensions: 27.5 x 21.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Helen [Muir], 1898 Sep 10." (1898). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2184.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2184
Resource Identifier
muir10_0303-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 10, Image 0303
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
