Creator

John Muir

Creator

John Muir

Recipient

Helen [Muir]

Transcription

Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Oct. 5. 1898

Dear Helen.

I got telegram from Huntsville yesterday glad to know you are well.
We had a fine trip on Black Warrior River & saw canebrakes & magnificent flowers & trees the weather is hot. We can get no further south on account of Yellow fever. Now we turn North by Birmingham Chattanooga & Lexington. Will be in New York in a week or so have letters sent there & to Jamaica Plains.
We leave here in a few minutes. The streets are grand oak [illegible] trees Willows water & [illegible] oak. a [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible]

J.M.

Location

Tuscaloosa, Ala.

Date Original

1898 Oct 5

Source

Original letter dimensions: 7.5 x 13 cm.

Resource Identifier

muir10_0341-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 10, Image 0341

Collection Identifier

Online finding aid for the microform version of the John Muir Correspondence http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0w1031nc

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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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

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