Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Strentzel [Family]
Transcription
Hamilton Nevada. Sep’ 11th 1878.
Dear Strentzels.
All goes well in camp [ some?] that [ bag?] of grapes you so kindly sent. I telegraphed for it on arriving at this place to be sent by Wells Fargo but it has not come & we leave here tomorrow. We had hoped to have been in Eureka by the middle of last month but the unknown factors so abundant in our work have pushed us so far southward we will not now be likely to go there at all. Nevertheless I have enjoyed your kindness even in this lost grape expression of it but you must not try to send anymore because we will not again be within grape range of railroads until on our way home in Oct or November. Then should there be any left I will manifest for my own good & the edification of civilization a fruit capacity & fe[illegible] to be found only in savage camps. Since our Lone Mountain exper[illegible] we have not been thirsty. Our course hence his first
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Hamilton Nevada. Sep’ 11th 1878.
Dear Strentzels.
All goes well in camp [ some?] that [ bag?] of grapes you so kindly sent. I telegraphed for it on arriving at this place to be sent by Wells Fargo but it has not come & we leave here tomorrow. We had hoped to have been in Eureka by the middle of last month but the unknown factors so abundant in our work have pushed us so far southward we will not now be likely to go there at all. Nevertheless I have enjoyed your kindness even in this lost grape expression of it but you must not try to send anymore because we will not again be within grape range of railroads until on our way home in Oct or November. Then should there be any left I will manifest for my own good & the edification of civilization a fruit capacity & fe[illegible] to be found only in savage camps. Since our Lone Mountain exper[illegible] we have not been thirsty. Our course hence his first
Location
Hamilton, Nevada
Date Original
1878 Sep 11
Source
Original letter dimensions: 31 x 21.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Strentzel [Family], 1878 Sep 11." (1878). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 443.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/443
Resource Identifier
muir03_0903-md-1.pdf
File Identifier
Reel 03, Image 0902
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
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
