Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[A. H.] Sellers
Transcription
[1]
[letterhead]
Nov 22 1898
My dear Sellers
I've been hoping all summer that my good angel would guide me to you through the seasons work, but now it seems I can only wave my hand in salute from this distance in the Florida pines on my way home. It is but little more than two months since I left California, so far however have been my wanderings through these eastern forests & so fast & devious it seems years & years. I came around by the Great Northern to Duluth - down the lakes to Buffalo & thence to
[2]
[letterhead]
Boston - to Cape Cod - North Carolina Georgia - Alabama - Tennessee - Kentucky. Thence back to Boston & from there to Canada through the White Mtns & the Green Mtns with their glorious colored woods. Again to Canada through the Maine woods by Moosehead Lake & back to New York. Thence short trips through the Berkshire Hills & up the Hudson reveling in the Autumnal red & gold of the woods. Thence south again through the grand Yellow & purple oak forests about Wilmington, Del. Baltimore & Washington & on to St Augustine Miami & Key West Thence on a [sloop?] to the south most palmy Keys that stretch towards Cuba
[3]
[letterhead]
Thence over to the west side of the peninsula by Patalka & Gainesville to Cedar Keys on my old track made 32 year ago. At Archer I discovered most of the family who nursed me through a long fever. The old lady failed to recognize me & demanded my name, & when I said Muir she almost screamed "John Muir! My California John Muir? & how we talked over old times glad to find we were not forgotten through all these long icy years & sunny years You may imagine.
I mean to stop a day or two at Mobile with an old German botanical friend of Asa Gray to see the forests there & at New Orleans with another botanist then straight home.
[letterhead]
[4]
Through the glorious Alleghany forests I was with Prof Sargent & Canby in Canada & here I was & am along but how many are my trees & flowers & rock [friends?] & birds & streams & hills & lakes & [illegible] all lovely & familiar when are we to have a trip together?
[in margin: Ever very truly your friend John Muir]
I hope ere long I met few people - had no dress clothes or time. Spent an evening with Tesla; & several evenings with hero Hobson in N.Y. The magazine people at Boston & N.Y. Dined with lawyer Choate & talked forestry had fine ramble with Gilder at his country place & Prof Osborn on the Hudson. & in the Berkshire Hills etc etc etc. Are you coming to Cal this winter?
Location
Live Oak, Fla.
Date Original
1898 Nov 22
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [A. H.] Sellers, 1898 Nov 22." (1898). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2314.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2314
Resource Identifier
muir10_0513-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 10, Image 0513
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
Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Special Collections, University of Virginia 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
