Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Louie [Strentzel Muir]
Transcription
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[letterhead]
Simla, India Oct. 18/03
Dear Louie, Im just about to leave Simla where I have had a grand time in the Deodar forests I so much wanted to see, & in the grand mountains. I have been here only 3 days but the elevation is over 7000 feet & the air bracing & reviving, so that though not used to walking these days I walked 6 miles yesterday around
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a wooded hill without fatigue The views of the snowy summits of the Himalaya at sunrise are perfectly glorious Simla, though rather hard to reach, is one of the few places I hope the children may see some day. Darjeeling is another. My!! to think of mountains 29,000 & 30,000 feet high!! with all their wealth of ice & streams forests etc. etc.
I leave here at 1.30 P.M. go down 58 miles to the railroad at Kalpa in a coo[illegible]ial cart drawn by 2 horses Kept mostly at full gallop. arriving about 8 P.M. Thence to Delhi by rail arriving next morning about 3. o clock. Thence the same day Oct 19. about noon I start direct to Bombay. on my way home But how I don't know as yet, I would like to see a little of Palestine & Egypt & may go that way - thence back to Ceylon, etc I am now traveling alone - the tiger-hunter who went with me to Darjeeling, Benares, Lucknow, C[illegible], Agr[illegible], left me here, refusing to go into the mountains a 2d time. but I make pleasant acquaintances everywhere & am constantly growing stronger & richer in knowledge of Gods earth.
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I have not heard a word from the Sargents since we parted at Shanghai I suppose they are home or nearly by this time Wish I was. I hate train travel & hotel - restaurant life in general, but I suppose there are a few more places I should see before I die. You are in the midst of the vintage - wish I had some good grapes - It seems years & years since I saw you all or heard from you I must try the cable again. In haste but in love ever yours
John Muir
Location
Simla, India
Date Original
1903 Oct 18
Source
Original letter dimensions: 21 x 27 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1903 Oct 18." (1903). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2706.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2706
Resource Identifier
muir13_0846-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 13, Image 0846
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
3 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
