Creator
John Muir
Recipient
C[harles] S[prague] Sargent
Transcription
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[June '04]
Prof. C. S. Sargent
Jamaica Plain, Mass
Dear Prof Sargent & Robinson
I'm home safe & sound, Russian tea, poison sauce, & long hard wanderings to the contrary notwithstanding; & find all well & prosperous. I hope your home going was as happy, & that you found all the family well. Write me a long letter. In particular I want to hear about Alice hoping she has fully recovered. And send me a sketch of your trip after our parting at Shanghai. I left the Bayern at Singapore & went to Calcutta by way of Rangoon-, thence into the Himalaya by Darjeeling-
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back to Calcutta & thence to Benares, Lucknow, [Cawnpore?], Agra, Delhi & into the Himalaya again by Simla - Thence to Bombay, Egypt, & up the Nile etc- Was unable to reach the Cedars of Lebanon on account of cholera - From Port Said went to Ceylon, & thence to Australia & New Zealand, - thence by way of Port Darwin & Timor to Manila - to Hong Kong, Canton, Japan, & home by Honolulu. Had glorious time in India - the highest Himalaya peaks & glaciers, Deodar forests, great Banyans, temples & swarms of strange people monkeys etc-
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Found Old Egypt interesting also,- its long green palmy valley between brown deserts, marvelous towns, temples, & monuments of the lang syne of humanity opening telling views into history & making the dead live again.
Had perfectly glorious reviving times in Australia & New Zealand, there the flora is so novel & exciting I had to begin my botanical studies over again got a press & made big piles of specimens working night & day at them counting all labor light. The Philippine
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flora too is magnificent though I saw comparatively little of it. I visited many interesting botanical gardens that you would have enjoyed especially those of Singapore, Calcutta, Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney Rockhampton Port Darwin & Christ church.
The last trace of that miserable Manchurian rheumatism left me ere I reached Ceylon - never was sick a since hour after leaving Shanghai,- am now perfectly well & weigh ten pounds more than at any time during the the last eight or ten yrs
745
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Hoping to hear from you soon
I am faithfully yours
J. M.
I am deep in debt to you & Robeson for nursing me through that miserable gastritis.
I was surprised to receive a check from you as I did not think you owed me anything
I arrived last Friday on the Siberia.-
Location
[Martinez, Calif.]
Circa Date
[1904 Jun]
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 13 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to C[harles] S[prague] Sargent, [1904 Jun]." (1904). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2812.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2812
Resource Identifier
muir14_0298-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 14, Image 0298
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
