Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
Helen [Muir]
Transcription
Richmond, Virginia, Nov. 11, '98.
7:30 P.M.
Dear Helen:
The train stopped 20 minutes for supper here, and I've just got back into the car. I can't see much of this famous old town, only a lot of lights in long rows. This morning and yesterday I saw the most beautiful oak woods, some of the trees yellow, some brown and some vivid scarlet and crimson. No trees are more gloriously colored in all the American forests than these eastern oaks. All the way through Virginia thus far they are the same. The reddest of all is the Scarlet Oak, it looks red hot all over.
The White House and the Capitol and the Library are very fine and grand buildings, but the finest of all the stone things hereabouts is the Washington Monument - plain smooth marble shaft more than 500 ft. high. We saw lots of deer, buffalos, bears, birds, etc. at the Zoo in the Park, but the queerest and funniest were the kangaroos and a lot of coons. The coons were sunning themselves in the forks of the branches of a big dead tree. It's awfully trying to write on the quivering jiggling train. We are now fairly off for Florida, Mr. Sargent is seated in front of me trying to sleep. He is pretty well now. We will be in Florida - Jacksonville - tomorrow, and I hope I'll get a letter there, or at least when I come back to Jacksonville from Key West. I'll not feel that I am fairly on my way home until I am starting from New Orleans, which I suppose will be in about two weeks. Then how glad I'll be, my darling. Give my love to Mamma and Wanda and Maggie.
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02498
Location
Richmond, Va.
Date Original
1898 Nov 11
Source
Original letter dimensions: 14.5 x 9 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from [John Muir] to Helen [Muir], 1898 Nov 11." (1898). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2304.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2304
Resource Identifier
muir10_0465-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 10, Image 0465
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
4 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
