Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Wife [Louie Wanda Muir]
Transcription
[1]
[letterhead]
Sep. 13 1898
My dear wife
I arrived here this morning after a pleasant trip though yesterday we were detained an hour or two by the breaking of a piston. We got another engine & after running 20 or 30 miles the valve gear of the second gave way & we were again at a stand still on the Dakota plain. We got a third & this also broke down in the night & everybody went Hoodoo hunting. We reached St Paul 3 or 4 hours late but by taking a night train to Duluth arrived early enough to catch the last steamer of the season. Our ship leaves here about noon today you time 2pm here - expect a fine sail arrive at Boston Saturday if all goes well. I have picked up quite a lot of companions to whom I preach daily some of them
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[2]
[letterhead]
preachers I was very fortunate in finding [Lint?]. Wood & getting the story of his Glacier Bay trip. He is now a Portland Lawyer. This morning I have been trying to find Henry Butler by telephone but failed. Probably he is not yet back from his island.
What harvest is going on in the Washington Palouse country. In Eastern Montana & Dakota & Minnesota. Hundreds of miles of wheat a [grand?] food sight for Californians or indeed anybody.
I greatly enjoyed the Rocky Mountain forests. Am quite well at a [illegible] breakfast this morning & my throat has not suffered from preachy talking I try to keep restingly quite but they wont let me.
I wrote Helen from the Mountains Heaven bless you all
J.M.
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Location
Duluth, Minn
Date Original
1898 Sep 13
Source
Original letter dimensions: 23.5 x 15 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Wife [Louie Wanda Muir], 1898 Sep 13." (1898). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2185.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2185
Resource Identifier
muir10_0307-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 10, Image 0307
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
