Title:
Letter from John Muir to Wife [Louie Wanda Muir], 1898 Sep 13.
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:
Wife [Louie Wanda Muir]
Date:
1898 Sep 13
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir10_0308-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 23.5 x 15 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Duluth, Minn
Rights:
Copyrighted
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Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
1 letterhead Sep. 13 1898 My dear wife I arrived here this morning after a pleasant trip though yesterday we were
detained an hour or two by the breaking of a piston. We got another engine after running 20 or 30 miles the valve gear of
the second gave way we were again at a stand still on the Dakota plain. We got a third this also broke down in the night everybody
went Hoodoo hunting. We reached St Paul 3 or 4 hours late but by taking a night train to Duluth arrived early enough to catch
the last steamer of the season. Our ship leaves here about noon today you time 2pm here - expect a fine sail arrive at Boston
Saturday if all goes well. I have picked up quite a lot of companions to whom I preach daily some of them 02471 2 letterhead
preachers I was very fortunate in finding Lint? . Wood getting the story of his Glacier Bay trip. He is now a Portland Lawyer.
This morning I have been trying to find Henry Butler by telephone but failed. Probably he is not yet back from his island.
What harvest is going on in the Washington Palouse country. In Eastern Montana Dakota Minnesota. Hundreds of miles of wheat
a grand? food sight for Californians or indeed anybody. I greatly enjoyed the Rocky Mountain forests. Am quite well at a
illegible breakfast this morning my throat has not suffered from preachy talking I try to keep restingly quite but they wont
let me. I wrote Helen from the Mountains Heaven bless you all J.M. 02471