Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Family]
Transcription
[1]
[letterhead]
Sydney January 1st 1904
Dear wife & barrens
Happy New Year & everything good be yours. Little did I think when I left home that the New Year would find me so far from California
It is midsummer here with very warm weather & of course it is not easy to realize that this is a genuine New Years day. I spent Christmas in a grand wild ferny Eucalyptus
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forest 60 or 70 miles from Melbourne, & today I'm going a little way into the Blue Mountain forests about Mt Victoria. & never could holidays be more delightfully celebrated by a California tree lover. if only you could be with me. But how long it is since I even heard
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from you.
[letterhead]
Yesterday in the botanical gardens I found a new Auraucaria (new to me) The one from New Caledonia named for Captain Cook. It is even more beautiful than the exelsa from Norfolk Island The Bidwell species grows in great forests not far from Brisbane & I hope to see it in all its glory of wildness.
On the 11th of this month I intend to sail for New Zealand for a month: visit to the strange forests,
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geysers, glaciers ferny fiords etc. returning to Sidney via Tasmania, & starting thence for Singapore March 2d, & thence to Japan & thence to San Francisco direct, an awful long way but it seems best & my health is so much improved. You will hardly know me
Give my hearty New Years greetings to everybody. Ever with Love
John Muir
Location
Sydney [Australia]
Date Original
1904 Jan 1
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20 x 12.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Family], 1904 Jan 1." (1904). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2737.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2737
Resource Identifier
muir14_0021-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 14, Image 0021
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
4 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
