Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Wife [Louie Wanda Muir]
Transcription
[3]
Southern Pacific seeing some trees in Texas that I have not yet seen. This will take a week or two longer but I should learn enough to pay for the extra time. If however Sargent should not get well soon I'll most likely bolt straight home the nearest way. One [morning?] in N.Y. is to be given Tesla another Leggett. Pinchot is in Washington, Johnson wants me to go to see the President & preach forestry to him but I guess I wont in the midst of present politics. While out riding this morning I gathered some of the rare walking fern-Camptosorus which I send by this mail. Of course you will be careful to make it grow
Ever Your affectionate husband
J Muir
[1]
[letterhead]
Nov. 3, 1898
Dear Louie.
I'm enjoying a fine rest this lovely day the first of the Indian summer so cool so calm so bright & the colors are still glorious in the valleys though long past prime on the highlands along the Hudson I came here from N.Y. last evening with Mr Osborn & received the heartiest most devoted welcome imaginable what a charming home it is in the hushed tranquil woods though so near huge Babylon New York!
I wrote you Wednesday of my charming visit to Gilder's
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[2]
Four brook home in the Berkshire Hills, I arrived from there in N.Y. Tuesday eve went to Johnson. Staid overnight & dined & breakfasted with hero Hobson a splendid fellow who looks all he is, I raised a big laugh at the dinner table when in talking about my southern trip I said that Hobson's heroism in sinking the ship amid a rain of bullets was nothing to that required in sinking ourself in the beds of southern hotels so dirty they [wire?] & so deadly the smells etc. This forenoon Mr & Mrs Osborn took me on a fine drive. Through the hills & mtns hereabouts. The views of the river & the woods & glens were charming. I'm having a most delicious rest commenced in Gilder's lovely cottage - a rest which is showing me how profoundly tired I was, & how hard & stunning a blow that sickness had dealt me. I'm now feeling like myself again. I expect to be here until Monday then on a day or two later if Sargent is well enough & the way through the south is open I expect to start for Florida & thence home by the
Location
Wing and Wing, Garrison-on-Hudson [N.Y.]
Date Original
1898 Nov 3
Source
Original letter dimensions: 17.5 x 23 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Wife [Louie Wanda Muir], 1898 Nov 3." (1898). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2296.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2296
Resource Identifier
muir10_0435-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 10, Image 0435
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
