Creator
James Murdock
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
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party than go alone - and as I have seen all the places in the itinerary from Oakland southwards my best plan was to leave at Martinez & go back by the C.P.R. You see my principal object in going west is to see you, the Yellowstone & the Canadian Rockies. Hoping to meet you about Wednesday 28th Sept. Believe me
Yours very sincerely
James Murdock
[1]
24 Augt. 1904
105 Maplewood Avenue
Germantown
Philadelphia Pa
Dear Professor Muir
You will see from the above that I have once more got across the "Pond", this time with my wife who is to remain here with relative while I go west.
My plan is to go with a Yellowstone party tour of Raymond & Whitcomb's Company which starts from this on [7th?] Sept. via Chicago St. Paul through north Dakota & Eastern Montana to the Yellowstone - on leaving
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[2]
the Park then by Livingston westward through Montana and Idaho on the N.P.R. through Washington to Seattle and by steamer to Victoria B.C.- Tacoma, Portland then leave by S.P.C. Shasta route southward through Oregon crossing the Siskiyou mountains & passing near Mount Shasta & through the Canon [diacritic] of the Upper Sacramento by daylight and then I leave the party at Martinez where I shall give myself the
[3]
pleasure of spending a day with you, to return after joining the C.P.R. by Glacier, Banff-Winnipeg & Toronto to this place. The tourist party goes on after I leave them to San Francisco San Jose Santa Cruz &c. &c. to Yosemite Valley & Canon of Arizona - Salt Lake City &c. go back to Philadelphia.
I would rather that this excursion started a week or 10 days earlier as their later start cuts into the time at my disposal , but at my time of life I considered it better to take advantage of a
Location
Philadelphia, PA.
Date Original
1904 Aug 24
Source
Original letter dimensions: 18 x 23 cm.
Recommended Citation
Murdock, James, "Letter from James Murdock to John Muir, 1904 Aug 24." (1904). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2858.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2858
Resource Identifier
muir14_0500-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 14, Image 0500
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
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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.
Pages
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
