Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Wanda, Helen & Mama [Muir]
Transcription
[1]
[letterhead]
Oct 18 1898
Dear Wanda & Helen & Mamma
Im pretty sleepy, for it was after midnight when I went to bed last night & the bed was only a confounded stuffy jiggling bunk at the top of a sleeping or sleepless car. But this day was so crisp & bright & delightful, so full of lovely & wild scenery it might awaken the dead & do away with sleep altogether. I stopped here on my way from Montreal to the White Mountains & all the scenery was beautiful & must be beautiful all the year but robed with glorious leaf colors as it is now nobody can half tell or even hint it. The town is finely
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situated on Lake Champlain on high ground on the Eastern shore commanding wide views of the lake with its many islands & the mountains of the Adirondacks region, while the Green Mountains make a grand fence along the Eastern horizon. I got here about noon, had a nice dinner in a fine clean commodious hotel
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which you may be sure I appreciated after the squalled piggy places we had to stop at in the southern states. Then I got a buggy & drove through the pretty town & the hills & along the lake through the midst of Yellow & purple & golden trees & bushes. My! If you & Helen & Mamma could have been with me. Tomorrow I start for Stowe & thence up Mt Mansfield. Thence I go to Mt Washington & the passes and notches of the White Mountains, &
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then back to Boston perhaps passing through a part of the State of Maine. You & Helen must read or reread Parkmans history of the Indians & early French explorers in Canada you will find charming descriptions of this region in the midst of the green
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& red history of the savages missionaries & adventurous traders. Lake George & Champlain were the highway to Canada for both Indians & whites for centuries.
You may be sure Ill sleep long & well tonight. I have a good room & a good bed. I wonder if John Small is still hereabouts. How he must have enjoyed his New Hampshire hills.
Give my love to Maggie. Heaven bless you all, so prays
J.M.
Location
Burlington, Vt.
Date Original
1898 Oct 18
Source
Original letter dimensions: 23 x 14.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Wanda, Helen & Mama [Muir], 1898 Oct 18." (1898). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2203.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2203
Resource Identifier
muir10_0387-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 10, Image 0387
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
