Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Helen [Muir Funk]
Transcription
January 31, 1912[letterhead]Near Mozambique & Madagascar where Wanda was supposed to go mountaineering if you'd only ask her.Darling Helen,I hope you are all well. I've had the grandest time imaginable. "Kings may be blest but I'm glorious" etc. Left Capetown, Jan 16th arrived Victoria Falls on the 20th wandered about in the woods that fringe them dripping with spray & through the Baobab woods. Thence to Beira on the east coast 150 miles or so from the mouth of the Zambesi, glorious glacial sculptured mountains hundreds of miles of granite domes, ridges, peaks
like those about Yosemite & Tuolumne. A vast unletterable lot of them.At Beira caught the good Windhuk that I left at Capetown & am now on my way to Mombasa where I'll again leave her for a three weeks trip to Lake Nyanza, returning in time to catch the steamer "General" of the same line, due at Mombasa on the 27th of Feb. Then home I go via Suez, Naples & New York arriving California about April or May. You see then Darling that after a look at the lake region all the rest of the trip will be only easy homegoing hoping all the way to find you well. Wanda's health is a source of anxiety hope as I may.Love to all who love you.This letter will go direct ot Europe by this ship.Affectionately your fatherJohn Muir
Location
Near Mozembique & Madagascar [Indian Ocean]
Date Original
1912 Jan 31
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Helen [Muir Funk], 1912 Jan 31." (1912). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 6214.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/6214
Resource Identifier
muir20_0793-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 20, Image 0793
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
