Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Louie, Wanda & Helen]
Transcription
Dont let Tinning forget the renewal of the Williams Note
Hong Kong
S.S. "Bayern," N. German Lloyd
September 16th 1903.
Dear Wife & Darlings, I wish you could be with me this morning on this fine steamship in this most wonderfully beautiful mountain gist harbor. Left Russia at Vladivostok Sep 3. worn out & starved out & poisoned out with 2 mos of R.R. travel & Russian food - Now I'm all right & getting fat - & am on my way to India to see the Himmalaya. I am alone & independent having parted from the Sargents a week ago at Shangahi — (Their aims & interests were so different from mine I should never have joined them.) We sail for Singapore in an hour or two, wh we will reach in about 4 days. At Singapore I will take a steamer for Calcutta. Thence in a few days I'll be far up the mountains near Darjeling. Leaving India
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in a month or so, I expect to catch one of these fine North Germany Lloyd steamers at Colombo, Ceylon for Europe by the Red Sea Egypt etc, & perhaps sailing from Naples direct for New York instead of coming back this way to Yokohama & San Fran. I expect to be home about New Year. In the meantime the white Hymmalya is a glorious inspiring aim. I'll write often so you will easily trace my wanderings on the map & many a story Ill tell when I at last join you again Love to all. Ever yours John Muir
Location
Hong Kong
Date Original
1903 Sep 16
Source
Original letter dimensions: 25.5 x 20.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Louie, Wanda & Helen], 1903 Sep 16." (1903). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2697.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2697
Resource Identifier
muir13_0806-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 13, Image 0806
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
