Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Annie] Wanda [Muri]
Transcription
Monday, Aug. 5 ,1895.
Dear Wanda
I am just about to start afoot down the Tuolumne Canon. Yesterday I climbed Mt. Connoss with two young men who joined me at Yosemite [illegible] Valley and have been good bright manly company. It is about noon and here at the foot of the Big Tuolumne Meadows we part, they returning to Yosemite and I to go alone through the canon to Natch Hetchy and then to Crockers, and thence to Yosemite and home. I suppose I will be about two weeks in the canon. I feel pretty well today after climbing and riding and crackers. My companions will lead back my horse, and I will be far in the wilderness again in the old way, without blankets, but I think I can stand it about as well as ever.
The flowers are lovely on the glacier meadows and on the high mountains and you will never know how glad I am to be with them again. I am sitting on a rock by the river and a cascade is chanting gloriously and all the old enthusiasm has come again.
I will have a hard grand trip and will be cold a little at night, but will not suffer, for I know well how to use a camp fire. I wrote to Helen before leaving Yosemite and will write your mother when I return. Love to all. How gloriously the river is singing. Ever affectionately your father,
John Muir.
[Written on a page from his note book]0 3-0/1
Location
[Yosemite, Calif]
Circa Date
[1895] Aug 5
Source
Original letter dimensions: 17 x 10 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Annie] Wanda [Muri], [1895] Aug 5." (1895). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 3124.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/3124
Resource Identifier
muir08_1107-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 08, Image 1107
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
