Title:
Letter from John Muir to [Loulu Perry] Osborn, 1898 Dec 12.
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:
[Loulu Perry] Osborn
Date:
1898 Dec 12
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir10_0544-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Martinez [Calif.]
Rights:
Copyrighted
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Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
Martinez, Dec. 12, 1898 My dear Mrs. Osborn I'm home find all, including the Wing and Wing walking fern, well Leaving
your lovely loveful cottage I spent a day in New-York. Met Tesla hero Hobson Johnson the Gilders etc. Joined Sargent at Wilmington
spent a day in the woods then another about Baltimore, another around Washington enjoying especially the magnificent whiteoak
woods. Thence we went to St. Augustine thence to Miami and on to Key West the Marquesas Keys for palms etc. Thence we returned
to Palatka crossed over to the West Coast at Cedar Keys near which I found the family that nursed me through long dreary fever
31 years ago. The views along the coast rivers, through the sunny flowery palm pine woods I enjoyed ever so much. Sargent
left me at Archer, Fla. I made my way home by New Orleans, stopping at Mobile to see the Magnolia forests at New Orleans to
visit a blessed old botanist - Mellichamp all the way I want on in the strength I gained in the downy rest days at your home
on the Hudson. Now I'm looking forward to our Yosemite trip so are Wanda Helen. Here are the verses I promised Mr. Osborn.
Don't forget the photographs you promised to send me. I'm pegging away at an article on The Yosemite Park making slow awkward
progress. I wish someone would write the Hudson woods, Squirrels waters people. With kindest regards thanks to all the family
I am Ever faithfully yours John Muir 02515