Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
[recipient unknown]
Transcription
[A]
The Parson's family met on way to New Zealand gls
I was glad to get yr letter I enjoyed with your father & mother camping very much - for it is always pleasant to hear from & be remembered by fellow travels in strange wild countries whose company one has enjoyed in the [wildest?] of Gods beautifuly wilderness in strange lands & I spent about a week in the Kauri woods & had a glorious time The "Kauri P[illegible]", Ag[illegible] Australis formerly called Dem[illegible] Australis is one of the very noblest & most impressive of all the great & beautiful trees
[B]
where acquaintance I've made in my long wonderings. I went to Sydney by the st[illegible] - a[illegible] [illegible] Then made an excursion about 2600 [illegible] far long into Queensland by rail stage & present carriage. All the way through forests many of them exceedingly beautiful with palms Eu[illegible], T[illegible] Figs & E[illegible]s of a hundred species but the glory of these forest are the 2 A[illegible] A. Bidwelli & A C[illegible] especially the B[illegible] a perfectly glorious tree as seen at home on
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[c]
the Bunya mtns. 150 to nerly 200 ft [h.?] rejoining in wildness soaring with majestic p[illegible] round & dark & mossy high above its noble amps But I must stop description or this letter will spread into a book.
Returning to Sydney I sailed to Manila by way of Port D[illegible] & [illegible]. Had good times in the beautiful Philippine woods. Thence went to Hong Kong - Thence home by way of Shanghai Japan & Honolulu Reaching home by the end of May
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Location
[place unknown]
Circa Date
[1904]
Source
Original letter dimensions: 21 x 23 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from [John Muir] to [recipient unknown], [ca. 1904]." (1904). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2940.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2940
Resource Identifier
muir14_0782-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 14, Image 0782
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
