Creator

John Muir

Creator

John Muir

Recipient

Helen [Muir]

Transcription

Aug. 22 1897 (Port Townsend, Wash)

My darling Helen, I wish you and Wanda and Mary could be with me to see the grand mountains and glaciers. The little tawny must be getting very wise and smart, and the kitty crop of the rose bushes must be [ ] this year. You must enjoy the sweetwater grapes I have not seen any up here, but plenty of green sour muscats and Bartlett pears.

Wanda must look most solemnly imposing in goggly glasses but if it cures her headaches the goggling must not count and we’ll soon get used to it.

I did not get Mary’s Banff letter but will wish to have it forwarded.

Now Midge don’t get lonesome. I’m coming right home as soon as I can. I’m glad you enjoyed the century [ ] of the trip to Alaska and you will enjoy the trip itself some of these days.

Give my love to grandma and everybody. I sent you lots of letters and you must have got them ere this. Your loving papa John Muir

Location

Port Townsend, Wash.

Date Original

1897 Aug 22

Source

Original letter dimensions: 27 x 20 cm.

Resource Identifier

muir00_150-let

File Identifier

MSS 301 Shone

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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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

1 page

Keywords

Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters

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