Creator

John Muir

Creator

John Muir

Recipient

Louie [Strentzel Muir]

Transcription

[1] Vladivostock Aug. 19. 1903

Dear Louie After many short stops here & there we are at last on the Pacific having crossed the whole vast breadth of Asia & now you don't seem so dreadfully far. We arrived yesterday morning very tired & dirty, having slept in our clothes the last 8 nights & the heat has been trying 80 to 90° in the cars. & miserable uneatable food at the stations most of the. Here it is delightfully cool - but the food is very poor. I'm resting today while the Sargents are out botanizing. I suppose we will be here a few days longer. Then Sargent wants to the A[illegible] for a day or two, thence back to

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Harbin, thence to Mukden & thence to Peking which will require 8 or 10 days more of rail riding of most wearisome sort, but wit views of wonderful regions their rocks scenery flora people etc by way of compensation. I had made up my mind to leave the Sargents here & go to Japan Shanghai, etc as I long for the cool sea But Sargent advises very strongly against my going off alone & raises all sorts of objections, difficulty of arranging money matters etc. promises not to stay but a day or two in Pekin or hot dirty Mukden (suggestive [name?])

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So I suppose Ill go on with him as far as Pekin or Shanghai - where I hope to hear from you once more. The whole trip has been exceedingly interesting for more so than anything I had read leads one to expect. And now dear wife & babies Heaven bless you How glad Ill be to get home

Love to all. John Muir

Location

Vladivostok [Russia]

Date Original

1903 Aug 19

Source

Original letter dimensions: 21 x 27 cm.

Resource Identifier

muir13_0788-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 13, Image 0788

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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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