Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Helen [Muir Funk]
Transcription
[4]God bless you. Ever Your devoted fatherJohn Muir[1]Para, Brazil, Sep 18, 1911Darling Helen,I fondly hope you & Buel & the precious son are well safely through the summer in the pine woods of the mountains.I'm well & have enjoyed a glorious trip of more than a thousand miles up the great river enriched with the spoils of the greatest of all the world's forests. Had far more telling views of the trees than I ever hoped for. The river is everywhere immensely wide. yet for hundreds of miles the steamer ran so close to banks I could almost touch the outreaching branches. I was a week at Manaus on the Rio Negro, wandered in the wonderful woods, got acquainted with the best citizens & had a good telling time every way
[2]They even gave me a champagne dinner & many others hardly less notable. trying to lionize me almost like my own country friends though at first I felt dreadfully lonesome, couldn't speak a word of Portuguese.Here too I'm faring wonderfully well[3]in the home of a Scotch banker.I got back to Para on the 15th & am waiting for a steamer to Rio. May have to wait a week learning what I can of the adjacent country in the meantime. From Rio I plan to go to Buenos Aires, thence up some of the rivers & across the Andes to Valparaiso etcBe very careful of your health darling I'll be home in the spring
Location
Para, Brazil
Date Original
1911 Sep 18
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Helen [Muir Funk], 1911 Sep 18." (1911). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 6171.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/6171
Resource Identifier
muir20_0627-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 20, Image 0627
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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, see http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Fees-and-Forms-.html
Owning Institution
The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley. 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
