Creator

John Muir

Creator

John Muir

Recipient

Louie [Wanda and Helen Muir]

Transcription

[2]

We have pleasant company & I hope to talk of [illegible] a gentleman is on our car A R, R. man who is going to meet Harriman at Portland. He says that his train will be at Portland Monday morning so we will join the party there instead of at Seattle.
Goodbye Take good care of yourselves & my M.S.S. & Heaven help you to do so. Im feeling well

Ever Thine

J.M.

[1]

Klamath River

M. 27. 99

Dear Louie & babes

We are having a fine

[in margin: 735]

ride Shastas head is on a cloud It is snowing on all the region above the forests. But the day is five below. The river banks are lined with fine flrs. The blue [illegible] is perfectly glorious & the dogwood bushes [seemed?] covered with snow. around the sisson station & northward a species of phlox is in bloom making loving beds & the azalea & saxifrages are at their best

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[3]

Helen I hope you are not lonesome. [illegible] [Stickine?] & attend to the garden - Ill soon be back

With much love

Location

Klamath River [Ore.]

Date Original

1899 May 27

Source

Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 25.5 cm.

Resource Identifier

muir10_0807-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 10, Image 0807

Collection Identifier

Online finding aid for the microform version of the John Muir Correspondence http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0w1031nc

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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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

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