Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[George G.] Kip
Transcription
Martinez, Cal. Dec. 3. 1898
My dear Mr Kip,
I reached home three days agao, & your kind note of the 9th of last month written when I was on my way to Florida reached me today. I should have been delighted to have visited you this summer but my trip has been all given to the forests & it seemed impossible to see one in ten on a score of the friends I wanted to visit I hope the fates will be better to one next time. A sketch of my trip as a whole will show you how sternly I have been driven, Left home Sep 7th by the Oregon railroad to Portland, thence to Spokane & around to Duluth by the great Northern. Then down the lakes by steam to Buffalo thence to Boston, Next day to Cape Cod. Then back to Boston & off to the Alleghany forests with Prof. Sargent & Mr Canby of Wilmington, Del. through N. Carolina, Georgia,
[in margin: Im writing on forests with reference to their preservation - am writing book about them. See articles in Atlantic monthly for Nov. & Dec. & earlier numbers.]
Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky & Delaware & back to Boston. Next day after arrival off to Montreal by Albany & Lake George down by Lake Champlain, Burlington, the Green Mtns, Smugglers Notch, White Mtns, Portland, Maine. Thence to Bangor & up by Moosehead Lake to Quebec. Thence back to Boston, - to New York up the Hudson - spent a few days in the hills about Wing & Wing when we talked over our Alaska trip & in which you were not forgotten. Thence into the Berkshire Hills with Gilder thence to Wilmington, Baltimore, & Washington, driving out eight or ten miles at each of these places to see the park & woods. Thence to St Augustine, Miami, Key West, Marquesas Keys, Palatka, Gainesville, Cedar Keys, Live Oak etc. Thence to Mobile to get a glimpse for a few days of the grand magnolia forests there & thence home by New Orleans. You will see that this was a tree trip & does not count on friends visits But I devoutly hope next will be better Remember me to the boys & believe me
Ever Cordially Yours
John Muir
Location
Martinez, Calif.
Date Original
1898 Dec 3
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [George G.] Kip, 1898 Dec 3." (1898). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2319.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2319
Resource Identifier
muir10_0535-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 10, Image 0535
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
The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley. 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
