Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Wanda and Helen [Muir]
Transcription
[1]
[letterhead]
May 31
12 noon
Dear babies Wanda & Helen.
I came here last night on the special train the most velvety soft & superb train I ever saw. John Burroughs was the first to greet me in the crowd. & I Have been shaking hands ever since The party are exceptionally good natured for scientists Not a single fight Yet Brewer is [hale?] & hearty as ever He alone might be trusted to keep all calm & harmonious. He has a regular peace-be-still face. Fernow is very jolly. Fernow the botantist such a Capital fellow
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[2]
[letterhead]
& as far as I have seen so are they all.
We have got our room on the steamer & will sail this evening
I wish you all could be with me We will go to Glacier Bay & perhaps up the Stickeen a days journey all details of visits to different points are settled by committees etc
The lectures are the only things that bother me. I'm down for one on glaciers this evening
Love to Mamma & Maggie. Heaven bless you darlings
John Muir
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Location
Seattle, Wash.
Date Original
1899 May 31
Source
Original letter dimensions: 21.5 x 14 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Wanda and Helen [Muir], 1899 May 31." (1899). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2405.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2405
Resource Identifier
muir10_0815-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 10, Image 0815
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
