Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Louie [Strentzel Muir]
Transcription
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Thence we went to the Hague, Leyden & wandered through more parks, gardens museums, & picture galleries, thence to Harlem & wandered in the green clean neat streets & drove & walked through more parks galleries etc, each seeming more wonderful & interesting than the one before. & at each we had the advantage of having some of the nursery [men?] or professors of universities or Directors
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[letterhead] Amsterdam, June 22 1903
Dear Louie. Since leaving Paris weve had a grand time in novel wonderful Holland We first stopped at Rotterdam a day or two wandering about through magnificent picture galleries, parks of fine bosky trees & flowers & miles & miles of nurseries from which shrubs & trees especially rhododendrons & azaleas & kalmias are shipped to most all the world.
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of the parks as guides, kind wise & obliging going about with us taking us on drives to the most interesting parts of the towns & the adjacent country places. We arrived here this evening at supper time & how we eat nowadays, even me!! dinners or suppers of 8 or 10 courses & making a clean sweep of all without question Nearly the whole country lies between the sea level flat & green dotted with cattle villages & windmills & intersected by 1000s of miles of canals & ditches. Everything seems the best of its kind, & the skill & industry displayed in every way explains the aphorism Beats the Dutch. How queer it seems to a mountaineer to live below sea-level you may [clearly?] guess, but though enjoying these famous old world towns
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the Crimea & across the Cancanses.
The weather ever since we landed at Liverpool has been cold & rainy & we all have taken cold. This has been our first sunny day & it is still very chilly & all the hotels however grand are like ice houses. But we will be warm enough & more before
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[letterhead]
I'll be glad to get into contact with pure wildness once more in wide Russia. We go next to Berlin, & in about a week expect to be in St Petersburg. From Moscow we mean to leave the main Trans Siberian road & go through
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we get to Java.
One of the most interesting buildings we saw at the Hague was the summer Palace, We were conducted thro the rooms & hall - all exquisetly neat & clean & tasteful & mostly simple as to decorations The most interesting one of course was that in which the famous first Peace Congress was held Good night. Love to all. How I long for a word from home Ever thine
John Muir
Location
Amsterdam
Date Original
1903 Jun 22
Source
Original letter dimensions: 21 x 27 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1903 Jun 22." (1903). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2662.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2662
Resource Identifier
muir13_0670-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 13, Image 0670
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
4 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
