Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
Helen and Wanda [Muir]
Transcription
Key West, Florida,
Nov. 17, 1898.
My dear Helen and Wanda,
It's very hot here and I feel a little dull and sleepy. mostly from scant allowance of sleep. The night before last there was a fashionable ball at the hotel and the music was horrid loud and kept me awake till 3 in the morning, when they played Sweet Home and went to it. Then yesterday we hired a sloop and sailed over the blue water to the Marquesas Keys for palms, 2 new species, and my! weren't the palms exuberant and the sand fleas and mosquitoes and fiddler-crabs, also. We got back against a head wind about 11 o'clock, pretty tired. We saw lots of birds and fishes and flowers. The palms and mangroves are all twined and tangled with flowery vines and it was a hot job and a prickly job getting through them. The color of the water was charming--green and blue and purple and bronze brown and gold. We go back to Miami tonight on steamer, thence across to the West Coast by rail, thence back to Jacksonville, thence home by New Orleans.
I'm glad I'm turning homeward at last, though I'll miss Sargent. Love to Mamma and Maggie and the very darlings. Soon I'll see you. Goodbye once more. Sargent is in a hurry.
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Location
Key West, Fla.
Date Original
1898 Nov 17
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20 x 24.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from [John Muir] to Helen and Wanda [Muir], 1898 Nov 17." (1898). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2311.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2311
Resource Identifier
muir10_0495-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 10, Image 0495
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
3 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
