Creator

John Muir

Creator

John Muir

Recipient

Wanda [Muir]

Transcription

[2]

picture one of them took unknown to me at the time on the Nile steamer
Here also is a postal card for Dorothy. I think I enclosed one for Miriam at Cairo.
What a strange desert region this Red Sea & canal country is — But I must get ready to go
Goodbye darling & darlings & Heaven ever keep you with tenderest love. Affectionately your Father J. M.

[1]

[letterhead]

Port Said, Nov 22 1903

4 P.M.

My dear Wanda,

A few days ago at Cairo I wrote I intended going to Australia The steamer Barbarosa, a big 10,000 ton ship bound for that far antipodal Eucalyptus land has been signaled outside & in a few hours I expect to get aboard. Three Bells brother & sisters from Philadelphia are going as far as Ceylon & so I dont feel so lonesome.
Here is a Kodak

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Location

Port Said [Egypt]

Date Original

1903 Nov 22

Source

Original letter dimensions: 21 x 26.5 cm.

Resource Identifier

muir13_0880-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 13, Image 0880

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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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

1 page

Keywords

Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters

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