Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Helen [Muir]
Transcription
[4]
or anywhere. for every place is sweet & beautiful where you are. O dear! I wish I could just jump on a train this evening & never stop until I got home - But two weeks will soon be past Tell mama I was so glad to get her letter saying that her eyes were better give my love to Wanda & Mama & grandma & Maggie & Dave & everybody that you know I love. I must go now & see if mamas telegram has come to tell that you are all well It was 10 o'clock in the forenoon when I telegraphed & it is now five [in margin: in the afternoon Good night my love. Your devoted papa John Muir]
[1]
[letterhead]
New York
Sep 23, 1893.
My dear Helen
Ive got back to New York & will soon be back to Martinez, & I will be very glad. I came across the sea in a big ship. It sailed very fast, but it shook a good deal & I could not sleep very well. But I feel happy to get back into our own country again & so near our own home. I got your nice letter & mamas just the day before I left Liverpool. You write so well that I could hardly believe that my own little Helen had written that letter. If any more letters have gone to London they will be sent back to California by my cousins at [Berkanhead?].
[2]
I am with Mr Johnson at this nice club just now but I have a room at the Holland House & expect to get an answer to the telegram I sent mama as soon as I get off the ship. I want to speak to Mr Johnson about writing a book & so I will have to be here a day or two but you may be sure I will make haste to get home to see you all once more after my long long rides & sails & walks in [illegible]land & Ireland & England & Belgium & Switzerland & France & Italy. You can find all these countries in your geography I suppose.
[3]
I have to stop a day at Chicago also & two or three at Portage but I think Ill be home in about two weeks, & then wont we have a grand time together. I brought a few nice things in my satchel only a few because they make so much fuss about baggage in the custom house. You must have been studying very hard I think for you can write so well I m glad you are going to the redwoods to enjoy the beautiful trees & shells & mosses & the waves of the sea. I would like to be with you there
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Location
New York
Date Original
1893 Sep 23
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 26 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Helen [Muir], 1893 Sep 23." (1893). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 998.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/998
Resource Identifier
muir07_1355-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 07, Image 1355
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
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
