Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Louie [Wanda Muir]
Transcription
[letterhead]
Aug 25
Dear Louie -
We arrived here this evening pretty dusty & tired from Murphy but your telegram was refreshing. Tomorrow we begin to climb again into the pine woods & will soon be more than cool enough with frost every morning until we cross the range by the Sonora Pass to Bridgeport & Mono where it will be warmer. Then up again to the Tuolumne Meadows by Bloody Canon making four crossings in all. I'll be home in from two to three weeks & I expect that Dr Merriam & his sister
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& her husband Mr Bailey (newly married & a splendid fellow) will be with me for a chipmunk visit. Have greatly enjoyed this rest from writing & the trip very much & have learned something new but have done nearly nothing on my article. I saw Mr Sperry & his wife & daughter at the Big Tree Grove & Mr & Mrs Hutchings were very nice. At the Grove I also saw Mr Blackledge the Methodist Minister whmo of course you know, & who inquired very kindly for you & Wanda
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[in margin: I'll write you again from Bridgeport.]
Cosy Hutchings is married & has a baby a few months old. Her husband is a son of Mr Mills the geologist whose wife left him to join the wild Korush Messiah at Chicago years ago. Mr Whitaker another Methodist minister whom I saw at the Grove & who is a friend & chum of your present minister Mr Leach is well acquainted with Cosy's husband & says he is a splendid young man. There, surely this is gossip enough. Hello Midge & Wanda I hope you are cool & happy. How I wish you could be with us to learn the trees & birds & flowers. Heaven bless you Love to Sarah & Maggie,
Goodnight, J.M.
Location
Sonora, Calif.
Date Original
1900 Aug 25
Source
Original letter dimensions: 24 x 15 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Louie [Wanda Muir], 1900 Aug 25." (1900). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 4301.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/4301
Resource Identifier
muir11_0333-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 11, Image 0333
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
