Creator

John Muir

Creator

John Muir

Recipient

Louie [Wanda Muir]

Transcription

[letterhead]

Aug 16 1900

Dear Louie

I forgot to read you the usual sermon on fire before leaving. Be careful about making big fires especially in the afternoons. & watch your washwomen & Ja[illegible]. I left part of my M.S. on the table & so of course the article cant be finished until I return. Dont let anyone clean or dust my room. We arrived here last evening This morning we start on trip round by Bloody Can[on?] & Yosemite. The party is Dr. Merriam & Mr & Mrs Baily & the servants. Mrs Baily is the Doctors sister

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Florence the writer, just married. The weather is lovely & I look forward to a fine trip. I wish you could all be here while this weather lasts, though the hotels are [dressy?] & miserable Dr Merriam says he hopes to have a family camp here next summer & will insist you & the girls to stay a month or two. His own two girls are camping this summer with Prof Gilbert on a mountaintop in the Virginia Blue Ridge. The heat this season in Washington was killing hot Merriam says. I expect to be back home in about 2 or 3 weeks Love to Maggie & all the rest. Midge [The?] chipmunks are in dozens getting breakfast mighty merry.

[in margin: I'll tell later about forwarding letters]

Ever Yours Muir

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Location

Tallac, Calif.

Date Original

1900 Aug 16

Source

Original letter dimensions: 24 x 15.5 cm.

Resource Identifier

muir11_0309-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 11, Image 0309

Collection Identifier

Online finding aid for the microform version of the John Muir Correspondence http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0w1031nc

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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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

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