Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Wanda and Helen [Muir]
Transcription
[letterhead]
Nov 24 1898
Dear Wanda & Helen
I arrived here yesterday at 4 o clock in the morning very chilly & frosty - a strange state of weather after so much muggy sticky heat. This is a cool bright sunny day I spent yesterday with Dr Mohr - a good botanist & good man driving down the bay through a grand forest of Magnolia & liquid amber some of each a 100 feet high & 3 or 4 ft in diameter. Just think of magnolias this size I start for New Orleans this afternoon & may take the evening train for California, or I may
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spend a day at New Orleans with a botanist to see some of the great trees there. Anyhow I feel that I am fairly on the way home & am glad. I expect Dr Mohr every minute for another ride into the woods so this letter must be a short one & probably the last Ill write I hope to hear from you today by letters forwarded from Jacksonville.
Goodbye darlings Ill soon be home the frost has killed all the fever & there will be no quarantine trouble at New Orleans
Love to Mamma & Maggie
Ever your affectionate father
John Muir
Location
Mobile, Ala
Date Original
1898 Nov 24
Source
Original letter dimensions: 24 x 15.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Wanda and Helen [Muir], 1898 Nov 24." (1898). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2315.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2315
Resource Identifier
muir10_0521-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 10, Image 0521
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
