Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Louie [Strentzel Muir]
Transcription
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long journey to the Cri[illegible] & Cac[illegible] & on accross Asia to Pekin. It is a great wild land but the city though civilized & outwardly like other great cities is in many ways strange & I often long for the free wood & mountains. The officials great & small are all most polite & obliging & thanks to our credentials expect to make
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[letterhead]
Le July 3 1903
Dear Louie: We reached this great city of 1.200 000 inhabitants four days ago & expect to leave for Moscow tomorrow evening. Have had a busy interesting time visiting the Winter palace, Peterhoff the National Gallery of paintings - grand affairs - the parks gardens & principal streets etc & the officials with reference to our
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our way smoothly as possible. We are all getting better of our colds, the weather is improving & our appetites hold good against everything. It seems strange that not a word from home has yet reached me though the Sargents have got scores of letters - some at every large city we have visited. Hoping to hear from you at Moscow that you and the darlings are well & Maggie & Sarah & Dave I am with devout affection ever yours John Muir
Location
St. Petersbourg [Russia]
Date Original
1903 Jul 3
Source
Original letter dimensions: 21.5 x 27.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1903 Jul 3." (1903). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2665.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2665
Resource Identifier
muir13_0692-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 13, Image 0692
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
