Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Louie, Wanda & Helen
Transcription
[1]
[letterhead]
Sydney March 28 1904
Dear Louie & darlings Helen & Wanda I have finished packing up my many botanical specimens & [illegible] to go aboard the steamer Empire tomorrow evening to begin the long journey home via Hong-Kong Yokohama & Honolulu. Though I'm going aboard tomorrow we do not sail until Wednesday noon. We will call at several ports on the east coast of Australia & at Port Darwin on the north
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also at several islands & Manilla arriving at Hong Kong about the 22d of April Here I intend to take the fine new steamer "Siberia", 12000 tons which sails from Hong Kong for San Francisco on April 30 & is due in San Francisco about the end of May. So you see I have only one more change to make between this wonderful antipodal Kangeroo & blue green country & California & home How glad I am to think of it. I seem to have been dragged
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& driven over nearly all the world & how hard I have worked & how tired I have been & how steadily the fire of enthusiasm has burned through it all & how glorious has been the compensation in these strange wildernesses. I suppose you enjoyed Mr Klings visit. Many a story he must have told you but Ill tell you more, I have lots of lovely ferns & mosses for you The Siberia is one of Harrimans Pacific Mail ships. While waiting for her to
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[letterhead]
I may make a short excursion up the Yan[illegible] Kiang - for I may have a week or more at Hong Kong. Ill write again before leaving Sydney Not to have had a single letter from you has been very hard. Give my love to Maggie & Sarah & remember me to the Colemans [Dave?] & Swetts. Ever yours John Muir
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Little Alpine flower from the mountains of New Zealand.
Have been botanizing lately in Queensland 1300 miles north of this Had grand time in the aboriginal forests of Araucaria Bidwelli & A. Cunninghamia
Location
Sydney [Australia]
Date Original
1904 Mar 28
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20 x 13 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Louie, Wanda & Helen, 1904 Mar 28." (1904). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2762.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2762
Resource Identifier
muir14_0110-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 14, Image 0110
Copyright Status
Copyrighted
Copyright Statement
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Owning Institution
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Copyright Holder
Muir-Hanna Trust
Copyright Date
1984
Pages
3 pages