Creator
John Muir
Recipient
W[illia]m Trout
Transcription
Martinez, California
June 16, 1904.
Dear old friend
William Trout.
I am delighted to hear from you & wish you could come & see us. A second letter from you has just arrived but the "great long one" you mention with a draft from Charlie Jay, sent about the time I left home has never arrived. Mrs Muir says no such letter came & as she examined all my mail & piled it into a box for safe keeping until my return, I have gone carefully through the whole talas of a pile & no such letter is among them
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But dont give yourself any trouble about the confounded draft. It is only a piece of paper until signed, & since it is lost you can get another from the bank that sold it. Only the loss of the long letter is to be deplored.
I found a lot of letters from the President of the Wisconsin University requesting me to be present at the jubilee & make a speech. But I arrived home too late & I dont like speechmaking anyhow I got home on the 27th of May last having been away more than a year & a few days after reaching home had to go to the Grand Canon [diacritic] & petrified forest of Arizona. So I may say I have just arrived, & commenced getting accumulated correspondence of my hands.
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After leaving the President I made haste to Boston where I joined my companion Prof. Sargent. Thence we went to London - Paris, the principal gardens & parks of Holland, Berlin, etc Thence to St [Petersberg?] & Moscow, thence to the Crimea, along the Black Sea to Batoum, thence to Tiflis, through the Caucasus by the Darial Pass, & back to Moscow. - across Siberia, through Manchuria etc studying the forests & rocks. From Vladivostok to Japan visiting Corea by the way, thence to Shanghai, Here I left my companions & set out alone on the principal part of my trip, going thence to Hong Kong, Singapore Rangoon & Calcutta, & up into the highest part of the Himalaya - Kinchinjunga Mt Everest etc, at Darjeeling, Thence back to Calcutta & on through the main cities - Benares, Lu[illegible], Cawnpore, Agra, Delhi & up the Himalaya again at Simla
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among the Deodar forests etc. Thence to Bombay, & Egypt up the Nile among the old towns & temples Obelisks Pyramids could not get to the Cedars of Lebanon or to the Holy Land on account of cholera From Port Said went through the canal & Red Sea to Aden & Ceylon, thence to the South and of the world Australia and New Zealand; thence through the Malay. Archipelago to the Philippines to Manila- thence Back to Hong-Kong & home by Japan & Honolulu. What a glorious time Ive had! but telling it in a letter is out of the question
It is interesting to see that you are still inventing machinery. It brings back the old days at the Hollow. Soon like you I'll be 70 if all goes well, only 4 years are lacking but I dont feel old. Dave is older in appearance. Write soon or come to your faithfully John Muir
Location
Martinez, Calif.
Date Original
1904 Jun 16
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to W[illia]m Trout, 1904 Jun 16." (1904). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2795.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2795
Resource Identifier
muir14_0244-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 14, Image 0244
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
The Huntington Library, Muir Family Papers, HM 57349-57497. 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
