Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Helen [Muir]
Transcription
Funston Camp July 18/08
Darling Helen :
About 100 of the Whitney party got back to this main camp yesterday & today, all except 2 having got. to the top & of course are happy & exhilarated. Almost everyone in the outing is a good tough walker & climber but none could outwalk or outclimb you when you were at your best in the ante-grip & pneumonia days, & doubtless at the speed toward complete recovery you are now making you will soon be as tough & sound as ever, & even stronger & better in every way.
I got your 1st letter on the 17th & was very glad after so long a silence wh seemed longer on account of the many new sights & sounds of the people & mountains. It seems wonderful that so torrid a temp -as 115 should be even barely tolerable to you not to any pleasant & according to your own heart It is like being tried in a fiery furnace which must surely roast out all the base disease ore & leave only the pure health gold. How does old [illegible?] take such temperature.
1 suppose we will start home the day after tomorrow & you therefore should send all letters to Martinez hereafter, tho any ranching Mineral king after we pass it will be forwarded
I had a fine trip all alone as of yoro up one the tributary streams reaching far up in the kaweah Mountains. Saw a waterousel feeding its young etc. etc. wh I'll tell you about soon.I' m feeling better every day, & lose & less regret loss of time on this fine piney mountain outing. My kindest regards to all the good Daggett folk who have been & are so kind to us these late eventful & trying times.
Much love to you Darling, from your own
John Muir
Location
Funston Camp
Date Original
1908 Jul 18
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Helen [Muir], 1908 Jul 18." (1908). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 5483.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/5483
Resource Identifier
muir17_0761-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 17, Image 0761
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
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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
Pages
3 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
