Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Bidwell Family]
Transcription
[stamped: Bidwell Papers Bancroft Library] Sequoia woods on Kings River Oct 21st
Have been studying the age of the giants here yesterday & today. [illegible] eastward into the South Fork Canon, thence over the divide into Middle Fork & down far as possible Clouds –no snow as yet Recd yrs just before leaving San Fran. Will write on return in two or three weeks. Hard work ahead but glorious.
Ever Cordially yrs J. M.
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Hydes Mill North Fork Kaweah Nov 2d 1877
My dear Mother –
My Kings River walk is done & in a couple of weeks or thereabouts Ill be back in S F at work for the winter I went up the South Fork Canon & down the Middle Fork according to my plan sent you. The trip has been a very trying one a storm three days without food & ten days of exhausting cliff work but I have been wholly successful nevertheless & though faint in making the last climb of 5000 feet out of the canon Im rested & well as ever already, & the results are truly glorious. A new Yosemite in one of the most remote & unaccessable fastnesses of the range with finer sculpture than I have ever before seen in all the Sierras some thirty first class calaracts from 2,000 to 4000 ft high – three new Sequoia forests & a fine fact about bears – with landscapes lakes meadows etc beyond telling about. Probably Ill have no more work of this kind to do in the range.
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As I hope to hear from you on my return to the city I will not write farther at present Fondly hoping you & all the family are well I am ever your affectionate Son John Muir
[in margin: To Mother 1877]
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Location
Sequoia woods on Kings River
Circa Date
[1877] Oct 21
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Bidwell Family], [1877] Oct 21." (1877). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 384.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/384
Resource Identifier
muir03_0610-md-1.pdf
File Identifier
Reel 03, Image 0609
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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, click here to view the Holt-Atherton Special Collections policies.
Owning Institution
The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley. 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
3 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
