Title:
Letter from John Muir to [A. H.] Sellers, 1896 Apr 27.
Creator:
John Muir
Publisher:
Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library . Please contact
this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Contributor:
[A. H.] Sellers
Date:
1896 Apr 27
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir09_0149-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Martinez, Calif.
Rights:
Copyrighted
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Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
Martinez, California, Apr. 27, 1896 My dear Colonel Sellers, I mean to go to Alaska in about a month from now I thought
Frank might want to make the trip with me. I shall go by the regular steamer to Sitka, then by a small mail steamer to Yakntal,
Prince Williams Sound Cooks Inlet to see the Fairweather Alps from the outside, Mt. St. Elias the glaciers thereabouts - learn
what I can. The trip will probably be free from desperate adventures through slightly rough damp. I feel sure Frank would
enjoy it endure it in grand style. Indeed you all might, since Mrs Sellers triumphantly survived a weeks pounding on those
Rocky Mountain quartz mills called Yellowstone mustangs, the sleek black of the Continental divide above all Catlins Killing
corrosive cooking, illegible must seem easy by contrast. Amd then just think of the glory of white St. Elias the broad crystal
glaciers pouring to the sea I saw Keith last Saturday. He is doing charming work but is making too much money for mental
wealth is as extravagantly unreasonable unpursuadable unmanageable generally as ever. So of course he wont go to the wilderness
with me. Ever Yours John Muir