Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[A. H.] Sellers
Transcription
[2]
The greatest of our side excursions was one about 3000 miles long from the main line at Moscow thro. the Crimea along the Black Sea to Botoum, thence to Barjom in the grand Ante Caucasus & thence into & across the still grander main range with its many glaciers & nobly sculptured peaks from 15000 to over 18000 feet high We crossed from Tiflis to Vladivoscaz by the Dariel Pass & enjoyed
[1]
Vladovostok
Aug. 19 1903.
My dear Sellers:
I hope you are again quite well. How often on this long trip Ive wished you were my companion. It has been very interesting, all of it, far more so than the books I had read made me expect. And had we come through without making such excursions it would have been easy. As it was, most of the trip was very hard, very dirty & very fam[illegible]ish.
[3]
a fine flowery reviving glacial day on icy Kezbeck Thence back to Moscow by another road. We got here yesterday morning pretty tired of the R.R. still 8 or 10 days more of it lies before us - from here to the A[illegible]r. Thence back to Harbin & thence to Mukden & Pekin - Thence mostly the open sea to I dont now know where Java Ceylon etc? But where is our long trip to be extended? You must decide ere many years more go bye, I am looking forward to it with pleasure & am ever
Faithfully yours
John Muir
Location
Vladavostok [Russia]
Date Original
1903 Aug 19
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [A. H.] Sellers, 1903 Aug 19." (1903). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2691.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2691
Resource Identifier
muir13_0792-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 13, Image 0792
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Special Collections, University of Virginia 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
