Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Helen and Wanda [Muir]
Transcription
[letterhead]
Oct 2 1898
My dear Helen & Wanda -
We are in Georgia now as you see & not far from where I passed on my long walk to the Gulf of Mexico long ago. We hired a team this morning & a negro boy for a driver & have been riding most all day in the beautiful woods & along the [Coosa?] River & over some pretty steep hills making many stops to examine the rare plants & trees & bushes. There are 3 kinds of hickory trees here & Mr Sargent made the negro boy climb I dont know how many to get specimens of the nuts & it was fun to see him making faces about it. The oaks are very beautiful 7 or 8 kinds grow here, some with leaves
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long & slim like those of willows others very broad & glossy & deeply divided or plain. There is a huckleberry bush in these woods that is very tall & may be called a tree in some places. but the berries are small the children call them sparkle berries. I have not seen a single squirrel all day, & very few birds. but I saw hundreds & hundreds of little negro girls & boys laughing, grinning muggins jet black or brown too comical & cunnning for anything This being Sunday many were in their best clothes. & my! if you saw the glory & grandeur of this Sunday best Solomon in all his glory etc was nowhere. Well its late & I must go to bed Tomorrow we go to Tuscaloosa Alabama. In about ten days we will be in New York. & then to Boston & perhaps Adirondacks & home. I do hope you are all well. I expect to get a telegram
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from Mamma Tomorrow or next day at Huntsville. Ala. Now I pray God to bless you. Goodnight my darlings Goodnight
Your loving father
John Muir
Location
Rome, Ga.
Date Original
1898 Oct 2
Source
Original letter dimensions: 24 x 15.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Helen and Wanda [Muir], 1898 Oct 2." (1898). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2192.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2192
Resource Identifier
muir10_0335-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 10, Image 0335
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
