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
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
