Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Robert Underwood] Johnson
Transcription
87 Martinez, June 18, 1904
Dear Mr Johnson. After more than a year I'm home again safe & sound, & rich in notes, specimens, photographs & nerve pictures. After the Crimea & Caucasus, Siberia & Manchuria with the Sargents my main trip began.
From Shanghai set out alone for Singapore & India- Had general views of the great cities, temples etc; of the highest Himalaya mountains at Darjeeling, & of the grand Deodar forests about Simila, Left India at Bombay for the Cedars of Lebanon but failed to reach them on account of cholera. Therefore went up the Nile as far as Assouan, & had good look at old & new Egypt. Thence from Port Said went to Ceylon & away to south end of world -
Australia - a great country little known - New Zealand etc where I had glorious time. so novel reviving I began botanical studies over again with all the wildness & enthusiasm of youth. Again & again I have wished you & Gilder along. In less than a month under influence of these Southern Cross wonderlands you would grow back into boyhood, quit puttering with other folks jobs & do work of your own.- Dreams dreams you will say- but good ones, - & here's something good for which I have been looking since a long talk last summer with the President & governor Pardee. Good bye, Love to the Gilders & Johnsons,- ever
Faithfully yours,
John Muir
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1904 Jun 18
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1904 Jun 18 ." (1904). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2798.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2798
Resource Identifier
muir14_0260-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 14, Image 0260
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley. 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
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
