Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Louie [Strentzel Muir]
Transcription
[4]
I'm anxious to learn how your mother is. She seemed to be so hopeless & sad when I bade her goodbye. Tell her to be of good cheer Trust in Gods love & fear nothing.
Ever Yours
John Muir
[1]
[letterhead]
Aug. 11, 1897
Dear Louie.
I arrived here at daybreak this morning The train was delayed by rush of travel etc. & what with want of sleep & continual talking I fell rather tired. We have just returned from a delightful ride & walk from Lake Louise to Lake Agnes though grand woods of spruce & pine & a species of larch I had before seen. Canby is as bright
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[2]
& cheerful as ever & a most indefatigable collector of plants. Sargent can now walk pretty well & he does not limp.
I telegraphed to Port Townsend to find out whither we can get berths on any of the steamers for both Canby & Sargent seem determined to go if they can comfortably about the 17th or 20th
A gentleman & wife who have just returned from Alaska say that the crowd was so great there was no pleasure in it.
[3]
We came down from Banff to Laggan this morning & will stay here at the lake until the day after tomorrow then we will perhaps stay a day or two at Donald & other points I think that if you write as soon as you receive this to Victoria I would get it before going to Alaska,
Later Port Townsend to be held till called for.
Ill telegraph later after I know definitely what we are going to do.
Location
Banff, Alberta
Date Original
1897 Aug 11
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 26 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1897 Aug 11." (1897). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2287.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2287
Resource Identifier
muir09_1016-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 09, Image 1016
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
