Title:
Letter from John Muir to [Mr. & Mrs. John] Bidwell, 1879 Jun 19.
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:
[Mr. & Mrs. John] Bidwell
Date:
1879 Jun 19
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir03_1081-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
920 Valencia St. San Francisco, [Calif]
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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:
920 Valencia St. San Francisco, June 19th 1879. Dear friends, Mrs Mr Bidwell. Good bye, I am going home. going to the
mountains, to the ice forests flowers. I have just returned from Yosemite Valley where I enjoyed a delicious bath in fresh
beauty notwithstanding the uneasy scare I had to suffer in being compelled to lecture. tomorrow I sail on the Dakota to the
ice of the Upper Coast. first to Victoria about the Sound thence inland here there to learn what I may: Will probably visit
Alaska ere I return in the fall. I am delighted with the progress you have made are making in botany. Go ahead - just think
what comfers I will see. Remember me to your sister. Seattle B.C. will be my address for a few weeks. Goodbye with very cordial
regards John Muir.