Title:
Letter from [John Muir] to [Louie Strentzel Muir], 1881 [May 4].
Creator:
[John Muir]
Publisher:
University of the Pacific Library Holt-Atherton Special Collections. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies
of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Contributor:
[Louie Strentzel Muir]
Date:
1881 [May 4]
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir04_0521-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 26 x 19.5 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
San Francisco [Calif.]
Rights:
Copyrighted
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to publish or exhibit them, see
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Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
letterhead San Francisco Wednesday May 4 11, oclock 1881 My beloved wife. We sail in an hour I saw the Captain a few minutes
ago all hope of delay to allow me to see you once more is past. But never mind dear all seems sure true righteous as to the
trip I am making I feel sure that I shall return to you better than I go better in every way. I have been losing all appetite
during the last few months am now as nearly fleshless as I ever was. All my friends look in my face as if wondering at its
whiteness ask if I am well. So this trip is a necessity for health if no more. I feel a little better though wearied with
writing buying. I shall send about 100 home by Mr Payot or Upham, they will visit you in a few weeks. I have just found Charley
the baggage I have laid in abundance of woolen clothing. but the polar garments we will procure from the Indians on Be illegible
ings Straits 00993