Title:
Letter from John Muir to Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1896 Aug 16.
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:
1896 Aug 16
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir09_0377-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 21.5 x 14 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Seatle, Wash
Rights:
Copyrighted
The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission
to publish or exhibit them, see
http://library.pacific.edu/ha/forms
Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
letterhead 1 Aug 16 1896 Dear Louie, Im coming home on the Queen Will arrive in S F about the 20th or 21st We go first
to N illegible for coal that will be a fine trip missed on the way up. I have a lot of cones young trees, etc. which would
be spoiled in hunting Sargent. He is in the Olympia forests I have not been able to discover his plans after returning here
so Ill meet him in Cal. or southern Oregon later. The Alaska trip was a fine one every way through I failed to get to Yakutat,
02142 letterhead 2 The Osborns are going thome by the Canadian Pacific. Im too late for the Crater Lake trip but can
make it any time. I got Helens Wandas letter yesterday was glad also to get your telegram last night. Goodbye for a day or
two Love to all. Darling Helen Wanda Ill soon see you bring lovely cones flowers Ever Affectionately John Muir 02142