Title:
Letter from John Muir to [Osborn family], 1912 Jan 31.
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:
[Osborn family]
Date:
1912 Jan 31
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir20_0798-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
[Zanzibar, E. Africa]
Rights:
Copyrighted
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to publish or exhibit them, see
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Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
To mr. and mrs. Henry Fairfield Osborn Near Zanzibar Jan. 31, 1912 Dear Friends What a lot of wild water has been roaring
between us since those blessed Castle Rock days. But roll and roar as it might yon have never been out of heart sight. How
often I've wished you with me on the best of my wanderings so full of good things guided by wonderful luck, or shall I reverently
thankfully say Providence. Anyhow it seems that I've had the most fruitful time of my life on this pair of hot continents.
But I must not try to write my gains, for they are utterly unletterable both in size and kind. I'll tell what I can when I
see you, probably in three months or less. From Cape Town I went north to the Zambese Baobab forests and Victoria Falls and
thence down through a glacial wonderland to Beira, where I caught this steamer and am on my way to Mombasa and the Nyanza
lake region. From Mombasa I intend starting homeward via Suez and Naples and New York fondly hoping to find you well. In the
meantime I'm sending lots of wireless tireless love messages to each and every Osborn, for I am ever faithfully yours John
Muir 05148