Creator
M.H. Myrick
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
[letterhead]
Jany 31 1895
Dear Mr. Muir--
Your friends have thought that you knew something about mountains--but, just read the enclosed "Volcanoes are [illegible]!" and just see how much there is yet to learn?! Read it all, carefully, if you can.
As to Lassens', I know something about it. I have been there. There is no crater to Lassen--it is a sharp ridge cone. What the writer calls "Bummer's Hell," is not on the peak at all. It is "Bumpass' Hell," named after Bumpass an old mountaineer, who guided me to the place--it is at least three miles from the base of the cone, and is not a crater; but a level surface of about 60 acres, sulphur and steam springs scattered about, and often to the surrounding country.
How about Shasta? Is the rim of the crater "such a knife edge that explorers have had to break away the sharp crest to make a place to sleep"?
And then, what about the last paragraph! In one night, a mountain thrown up, 25 miles in circumference, 2 miles high, & steam and smoke 17 miles high! and explosions heard 2000 miles!! and
the tidal waves reaching dry land!! The Straits of Sunda are away southesast of Asia--so, those tidal waves must have gone around the Cape of Good Hope or Cape Horn, unless they took a short cut by India and through the Suez Canal, and over the Alps by the tunnel!!
Who is this writer? Is he of enough consequence to reply to?
Please return the enclosed article to me--I want it.
Ever yours
M H My[illegible]
I understand a tidal wave was [illegible] here at San Franciso--but there was a clear ocean wave
Perhaps I am away off in laughing at him--but the thing struck me funny.
Location
San Francisco, Cal
Date Original
1895-01-31
Source
Original letter dimensions: 26.5 x 20.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Myrick, M. H., "Letter from M.H. Myrick to John Muir, 1895 Jan 31." (1895). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 6981.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/6981
Resource Identifier
muir08_0779-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 08, Image 0779
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
Copyright status unknown
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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.
Pages
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
