Title:
Letter from John Muir to [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1912 Feb 4.
Creator:
John Muir
Publisher:
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.
Contributor:
[Robert Underwood] Johnson
Date:
1912 Feb 4
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir20_0816-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Near Zanzibar [E. Africa]
Rights:
Copyrighted
The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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://library.pacific.edu/ha/forms
Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
Victoria Falls, the magnificent glacial rock scenery of southern Rhodesia. From Mombasa I intend to make a short trip into
the Nyanza lake region then start home via Suez, Naples, N. Y. With kindest regards to Mrs. Johnson Owens? Agnes the Century
folk I am ever faithfully yours John Muir 111 Noted Abbott letterhead On the Windhuk Near Zanzibar Feb. 4,
1912 Dear Mr Johnson: I hope you had a good restful time in Europe returned rejoicing to your Century work. I've had
a grand trip in S. America S. Africa finding far more than I was looking for. Indeed it seems to me that the time spent on
this pair of hot continents has been the most fruitful of my life. I'm, now on my way to Mombasa from Beira, after a glorious
trip to the Baobab forests of the Zambesi. The