Creator
T. Hunt
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
[letterhead]
Sept 17th 1895
Mr. Muir
Dear Sir--
Your envelope with its most interesting looking papers was received this afternoon just as Mrs. Ballard & I were taking the cars for this place--Mrs. B is already deep in the "Sequoia," & when this is posted I shall have the "Alaska" sheet, & must thank you for them all. I really feared you might forget your promise.
We came here for the mines--in the morning shall drive but to the "Stamp Mills" & to Nevada City in the afternoon. Next day expect to see something of hydraulic mining at Bloomfield, & on Friday return to "Colfax" & our boarding place at Lander Station. Mr. Howells has a nice fruit ranch on one of the red, rolling hills of this part of
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the country, from the piazza on a clear day we have a view of the Sacramento river & Coast [Range?] beyond--the hills beyond Ma[illegible] a little farther north & still farther northeast Cape Horn & "Giant Gap" From the hill back of our cottage a long [range?] of distant mountains & bits of the snowy summits of the Sierras, the [intervening?] country dense forests of pine & oak, not far distant a small group of half a dozen "Sequoia," if you have not already explored this part of the world, why don't you come up & find these "Big Trees." [Mr.?] Howell's is a little comfortable place; he & Mrs. H. are busy about their fruit all day, no one else in the house but Miss Ballard, myself, & the Chinaman. we expect to be there a few weeks longer, & then return to Oakland, where we shall certainly help to have the pleasure of seeing you. Yrs truly
T. Hunt.
Location
Grass Valley, Calif
Date Original
1895 Sep 17
Source
Original letter dimensions: 26.5 x 20.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Hunt, T., "Letter from T. Hunt to John Muir, 1895 Sep 17." (1895). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 3139.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/3139
Resource Identifier
muir08_1175-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 08, Image 1175
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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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