Title:
Letter from John Muir to Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1889 Jul 5.
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:
1889 Jul 5
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir06_0122-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 24 x 15 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Grand Hotel, San Francisco, Cal
Rights:
Copyrighted
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to publish or exhibit them, see
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Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
letterhead July 5th 1889 Dear Louie. Here are more snakes that I found in the Call this morning. The curly crooked things
have fairly gained the papers bid fair to crawl through illegible all leaving a track never I fear to be obliterated. The
Chronicles turn will come next I fancy others will follow I suppos I ought to write a good post glaciel snake history for
the Bulletin. For just see how much better this lady's snakes are than mine in the Examiner The biggest snakes that ever waves
a warning rattle - Almost poetry compared with John Muir says they dont eat sheep 01353 2 letterhead wriggling rattling
aborigines Im ashamed of my ramshackle Examiner prose. The Indians tree the game hang up his snakeship beautifully cured in
sweet field arrayed in illegible green very beautiful they are etc etc etc. Oh dear how scrawny lean mean my snake composition
seems worse in its brutal simplicity than Johnie's composition about A Owle well it must be born. I'm pegging away - Saw Upshaw
today. Dr Vincent is at Palace - havent called on him, too busy - Love to all Don't tell anybody about my poor snakes - Kiss
the babes. JM. 01353