Title:
Letter from John Muir to Wanda [Muir], 1903 Nov 22.
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:
Wanda [Muir]
Date:
1903 Nov 22
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir13_0881-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 21 x 26.5 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Port Said [Egypt]
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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:
2 picture one of them took unknown to me at the time on the Nile steamer Here also is a postal card for Dorothy. I think
I enclosed one for Miriam at Cairo. What a strange desert region this Red Sea canal country is But I must get ready to go
Goodbye darling darlings Heaven ever keep you with tenderest love. Affectionately your Father J. M. 1 letterhead Port
Said, Nov 22 1903 4 P.M. My dear Wanda, A few days ago at Cairo I wrote I intended going to Australia The steamer Barbarosa,
a big 10,000 ton ship bound for that far antipodal Eucalyptus land has been signaled outside in a few hours I expect to get
aboard. Three Bells brother sisters from Philadelphia are going as far as Ceylon so I dont feel so lonesome. Here is a Kodak
03310