Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
[Irene G.] Wheelock
Transcription
[Rough draft of letter to Miss Irene G. Wheelock, written on back of her letter of John Muir, dated September 16, 1903]
Martinez, [September] 24, 1904,
Dear Miss Wheelock:
Your kind letters, after their many adventures, one of them lying hidden and smothered a year in your pocket, then the twins setting forth in their travels around and across and along the world have at last reached me, forwarded from Peking, China, one of them a year old, the other more than two years, and still as good as new. In the same package with yours came ten from my own family.
In the middle of May, 1903, I went with President Roosevelt to Yosemite, then started on an excursion more than a year long. Visited many of the famous parks and art galleries of Europe, spending about a week or ten days at London, at Paris, Berlin, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, the Hague, Leyden, St. Petersburg, Moscow. From Moscow I went to Sebastopol, thence along the Black Sea to Batoun, then to Tiflis, through the Caucasus by the Darhu Pass back to Moscow, thence across the Urals, Siberia, Manchuria, looking at forests, rocks, glaciers, people, etc. From Vladivostok to Korea, Japan, China, Singapore, India, up the Himalaya, thence to Egypt, up the Nile, thence to Ceylon, to Australia, New Zealand, Manila, Honkong, and home by way of Japan and Honolulu. And being most of the time off the main lines of travel in the woods no wonder letters had hard work to find me.
But the loss of your letter was no loss to your book, fot it is all right, has beautiful plumage, is bright and stout and well able to make its way on its own wings.
We all remember your visit with pleasure, and hope to see you at our home again whenever you come to this side of the continent. Thanking you for your kind invitation, and with best wishes, I am, etc. ,
[John Muir]03448
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1904 Sep 24
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from [John Muir] to [Irene G.] Wheelock, 1904 Sep 24." (1904). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2877.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2877
Resource Identifier
muir14_0564-trans.tif
File Identifier
Reel 14, Image 0564
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
1 page
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
