Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
Wanda & Helen [Muir]
Transcription
Palais d'Orsay,
Paris, June 17, 1903.
Dear Wanda and Helen,
I suppose and hope and pray that you and your fellow mountaineers are having a good Sierra time, and that you will all be safe at home ere this reaches you.
We have been in this wonderful city four days, and what big, novel, beautiful, and bewildering days they were! so full, so crowded with exciting scenes and sounds and events! These four days seem as indefinitely long as a geological period. We have walked and driven through all the famous streets and parks, visited the great cathedrals, Notre Dame, Magdalene, etc., and also fine private places and homes in and out of the city. Today we visited the greatest rose garden in the world, 10 or 12 miles from here, the grandest garden sight I ever saw. How your mother would have enjoyed it -- every rose known in the world, and varieties in apparently endless abundance, all beautifully arranged and located in the midst of beautiful forested picturesque country. Today we also drove through two fine parks and visited the Luxembourg Palace, picture and statuary galleries, gardens, etc. Yesterday we walked ourselves weary in the endless galleries of paintings of the Louvre, enough for a lifetime. But I can't write even the least faintest outline of it all. Some day you must see and study for yourselves.
We leave tomorrow morning for Holland. Goodnight, darlings, and Heaven bless you all -- mother, Maggie, and Sarah. How I weary for word from you. Not a single letter since I left, though Sargent gets many. Address them simply John Muir, Care of Baring Bros. & Co., London, England.
[JOHN MUIR]
Location
Paris
Date Original
1903 Jun 17
Source
Original letter dimensions: 21 x 26.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from [John Muir] to Wanda & Helen [Muir], 1903 Jun 17." (1903). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2660.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2660
Resource Identifier
muir13_0662-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 13, Image 0666
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
3 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
