Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Helen [Muir]
Transcription
Minoral King. July 24,1908
Darling Helen
We are on our way home. Camped here last night, this eve will camp at Redwood Meadows, & tomorrow expect to be in the Giant Forest. Next day will be spent in the glorious groves & then down to the lowlands & home.
I was not acquainted with the poor woman who fell from the dangerous cliffs of the Great Arroyo near our main camp at Funstan Camp. She was a teacher in the Berkeley High School, & fell in attempting an all but impossible short way to camp.
But for this accident all the trip has boon a grand success in every way. Never to me have these noble mountains seemed more divinely noble inviting & peaceful, so full of life and beauty, joyful, exhilarating,exuberantly flowery & songful. Everybody glad. they ventured to join the big wild outing. I'm so glad you are happy in the grand old mountain-rimmed life-giving desert. Almost everyone of the party have made kind inquirys about your health & seemed truly glad you are so surely on the way to a long happy life.
I got your fine postal card of the desert & a letter the day before yesterday & another last eve dated the 18th. G1ad. the fire did you no ill.Kind regards to all your Daggett friends.
Lovingly, devotedly
John Muir
He had a hard shivery frost lest night. o to think of it.
Location
Mineral King
Date Original
1908 Jul 24
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Helen [Muir], 1908 Jul 24." (1908). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 5487.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/5487
Resource Identifier
muir17_0775-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 17, Image 0775
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
