Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Joseph Hooker
Transcription
Martinez California Oct. 20, 1904 Dear Sir Joseph, When I got home from my long journey abroad, none of the letters awaiting me gave greater pleasure than Mr Nicholson's, which assured me that you were again in your usual good health. How sorry Prof. Sargent and I were on leaving London last year without seeing you, you must know. We had an interesting trip, though far too short, through Southern Russia - the Crimea - along the Black Sea, to Batoum and Tiflis and across the Caucasus by the Dariel Pass and North to Moscow. Thence across the Urals, through vast fertile Siberia and beautiful Manchuria. We saw a good deal of Manchuria about Lake Baikal and Harbin, the Kingdom Mountains, the Amoor and Vladivostok. I wanted to see more of the Ural mountains and their dense forests than could be seen from the railroad; but Prof. Sargent would not stop even for a day. Leaving Siberia and Vladivostock we sailed to Shanghai, where we separated, Prof Sargent going for a few days to Pekin [Peking] and
thence for a short visit to the Botanical gardens at Batavia and thence straight back to Boston - while I, free once more went on alone to India and made short trips in the Himalaya at Darjeeling and Simla. Thence to Egypt, Ceylon, Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines; and home by China, Japan and Honolulu. You were so many times in mind when I was in India and I often thought of the pleasure you must have had as a young, enthusiastic naturalist in the magnificent New Zealand forests. Your long life Sir Joseph has been truly noble; and I am, with sincere respect and admiration Faithfully yours, John Muir
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1904 Oct 20
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Joseph Hooker 1904 Oct 20" (1904). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2891.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2891
Resource Identifier
muir14_0621-ad-1
File Identifier
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. JD Hooker MUE-PIT
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
Documents reproduced with the kind permission of the Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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
