Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Annie] Wanda [Muir]
Transcription
[1]
[letterhead]
New York, June 7, 1893
My dear Wanda, I think I wrote to Helen last & so now it must be your turn. I’m disappointed not getting any letters here except the ones sent to Portage & forwarded, & one I think from mama. Tell mama she need not be afraid of letters addressed [c/o?] of the Century, for if I’m in Europe when they get here Mr Johnson will forward them. It has been very hot here & I felt all the time as if somebody has rubbed the inside of my underclothes with very sticky molasses. The papers said that the day before yesterday was the hottest 5th of June
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ever known in New York. Yesterday was also very horribly hot, but I did not feel it much for Mr Johnson took me up the Hudson river to one of the beautifully residences. Mr Osborne’s in the Hudson Highlands, where we dined & drunk cool water & champagne & drove about the leafy woods & gathered purple lady slippers & trailing arbutus & sailed on the charming river. Mr Johnson has kept me wining & dining & seeing people at the clubs so I have not been able to write much. This afternoon he is going to take me to Boston & Cambridge to see Sargent & the University people to talk about the forests, this trip will take two days.
[3]
[letterhead]
Tell mama that the Century people are going to print my first book instead of the Appletons, & promise to make a better portrait of me as they themselves say that the the one in the magazine was not good, not half handsome enough. Mr Keith has been in a fussy hurry ever since we started & left for Glasgow nearly a week ago & I fear I will not see much of him I think I will not get away from here for a week or more yet. But I feel well, & will take so many
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letters to people in Europe that I may not miss Keith so much. Everybody I meet here tries to make me feel at home & seems determined to keep me talking about the mountains & woods & glaciers I have seen & loved & studied so long. I think I am getting a little fatter eating so much new stuff the names of which I dont know. Tell mama that I heard somebody say yesterday that strawberries are bad for rheumatism. I hope you are all well & that you take good care of little darling Helen. I showed Mrs Osborne your pictures yesterday, the lady who entertained us in the Highlands at “Castle Crag” & she said you both looked like poets. Love to all John Muir
[in margin: 742]
Location
New York
Date Original
1893 Jun 7
Source
Original letter dimensions: 23 x 14.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Annie] Wanda [Muir], 1893 Jun 7." (1893). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 921.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/921
Resource Identifier
muir07_1040-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 07, Image 1040
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, click here to view the Holt-Atherton Special Collections policies.
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
Copyright Date
1984
Pages
3 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
