Creator

John Muir

Creator

John Muir

Recipient

Louie [Strentzel Muir]

Transcription

[2]

over 700 feet long has been about as steady as if tired up at a wharf. Though a slow ship the Celtic is very comfortable - rooms large etc We all have enjoyed the rest. Salt water baths - every morning.

[in margin: 124]

[1] [June 5, 1903]

[letterhead]

Friday 6 P. M.

Dear Louie

Ireland is right & tomorrow evening we will be in Ti[illegible]ot & probably leave on night train for London.
The sea has been calm all the way & this immense ship

03260

[3]

I have not yet planned trip to Scotland. Mr Gilder wants me to visit Carnegie at Kibo. Hardly think I will but would like to se Dunbar & Edinburgh my cousin & David Douglas & hear the sky larks sing. This line will leave the ship at [illegible]town & you will get it several days earlier than a Liverpool letter. Send all my mail Care [Baring?] Brothers & Co. London England, & it will be [in margin: forwarded. Love to all. Ever Thine. J.M.]

Location

S.S. Celtic

Circa Date

[1903 Jun 5]

Source

Original letter dimensions: 18.5 x 23.5 cm.

Resource Identifier

muir13_0614-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 13, Image 0614

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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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