Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Wanda, Helen, and Momma [Louie] Muir
Transcription
[Page 1] br> Oonalaska, July 8, 1899br> My dear Wanda + Helen and Mama. br> We arrived here this cloudy, rainy, foggy morning after a glorious sail from Sand Harbor on Unga Island, one of the Shumagin group, all the way along the volcano-dotted coast of the Alaska Peninsula and Unimak Island. The volcanoes are about as thick as haycocks on our alfalfa field in a wet year, and the highest of them are smoking and steaming in grand style, Shishaldin is the handsomest volcanic cone I ever saw and it looked like this last evening. [Drawing: about 9000 ft of snow and ice on its slopes Hot and bare at the top], I'll show you a better sketch in my notebook when I get home. A few miles from Shishaldin
"[Page 2]br> there is a wild old rugged giant of a volcano that that blew or burst its own head off a few years ago, and covered the sea with ashes and cinders and killed fish and raised a tidal wave that lashed the shores of San Francisco and even Martinez.br> There is a ship, the Loredo, that is to sail in an hour, so I'm in a hurry, as usual. We are going to the Seal Islands and St. Lawrence Island from here, and a point or two on the Siberian Coast-then home. We are taking on coal, and will leave in three or four hours. I hope fondly that you are all well. Give my love to Maggie. I hope May's baby is well. I'll soon be back, my darlings. God bless you. Goodbye."
Location
Oonalaska [Ounalaska, Unalaska]Harbor [Alaska]
Date Original
1899 Jul 8
Source
Original letter dimensions: 25 x 20 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "1899 Jul 8 JM to Wanda, Helen,Mamma" (1899). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 4866.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/4866
Resource Identifier
muir00_156-let
File Identifier
MSS 301 Shone
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
University of the Pacific Library Holt-Atherton Special Collections. 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
