Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Loulu Perry] Osborn
Transcription
Martinez, Dec. 12, 1898
My dear Mrs. Osborn
I'm home & find all, including the Wing and Wing walking fern, well Leaving your lovely & loveful cottage I spent a day in New-York. Met Tesla hero Hobson Johnson the Gilders etc. Joined Sargent at Wilmington spent a day in the woods then another about Baltimore, another around Washington enjoying especially the magnificent whiteoak woods. Thence we went to St. Augustine thence to Miami and on to Key West & the Marquesas Keys for palms etc. Thence we returned to Palatka & crossed over to the West Coast at Cedar Keys near which I found the family that nursed me through & long dreary fever 31 years ago. The views along the coast & rivers, & through the sunny flowery palm & pine woods I enjoyed ever so much. Sargent left me at Archer, Fla. & I made my way home by New Orleans, stopping at Mobile to see the Magnolia forests & at New Orleans to visit a blessed old botanist - Mellichamp & all the way I want on in the strength I gained in the downy rest days at your home on the Hudson.
Now I'm looking forward to our Yosemite trip & so are Wanda & Helen. Here are the verses I promised Mr. Osborn. Don't forget the photographs you promised to send me.
I'm pegging away at an article on The Yosemite Park making slow awkward progress. I wish someone would write the Hudson woods, & Squirrels & waters & people. With kindest regards & thanks to all the family I am
Ever faithfully yours
John Muir
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Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1898 Dec 12
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Loulu Perry] Osborn, 1898 Dec 12." (1898). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2321.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2321
Resource Identifier
muir10_0543-trans.tif
File Identifier
Reel 10, Image 0543
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
1 page
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
