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The Pacific Pharos, December, 1903, Students Of The University Of The Pacific

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Letter From Lucia Schell To Mrs. Muir [Louie Strentzel Muir], 1903 Nov 27, Lucia Schell

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

San Francisco Nov, 27, 1903 My dear Mrs. Muir – At a meeting of the “Outdoor Art League” your husband name was brought up; as an authority on the Calaveras Big Trees, we had hear that he was out of the state, and our president suggested a note of inquiry be sent. I begged that privilege, on the grounds of an old friendship and it was granted, much to my delight. We are most anxious to know if he is at home, if not, just when he will be or if you can give us his present address, as we …

Letter From John Muir To Wanda [Muir], 1903 Nov 22., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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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.

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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 …

Letter From John Muir To [Family], 1903 Nov 19., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Cairo Nov 19, 03

Dear Louie Wanda Helen & all of you. I wish I could get a letter from you saying you were well But alas! that seems impossible & so I can only hope & pray.
I've been up the Nile as far as the 1st Catar[illegible] at Aswan, about 700 miles from the sea. I went by steamer & returned by rail. The trip was interesting in many ways

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The noble famous [ful?] old stream laden with fertile mud from the [hot?] heart of the continent - the millions of date palms in …

Letter From [John Muir] To Helen [Muir], 1903 Nov 19., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Cairo Nov 19, 1903

Hello Helen you all seem so near & yet so far You know I'm used to good big distances. but when I think of the endless thousands of water [illegible]les to Ceylon, Eucalyptus & Kangeroo & Paddy Grogan Land, Page - Page, Tahiti, However I get lonesome. Mercy what a trip this has been what is left as tail of it is so monstrous long.

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But how great has been the compensation - The Crimea, the Caucasus, Russia, Siberia, Manchuria, Korea China, the straits at Singapore, India, the Red Sea & mountains …

Letter From Johannes Reimers To Mrs. Muir [Louie Strentzel Muir], 1903 Nov 18, Johannes Reimers

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Stockton Nov 18-1903 My dear Mrs Muir, I have been trying my best to come down and see you regarding the planting about the station building; but my time has been so taken lately that it has proven impossible for me to do so. I am going into Mr Muir’s Mountains of Light in a few days up onto the great silence of the snow. And I assure it will be full of inspiration to me to get away from the rumble of hurrying trains for a little while. I am going to take Mr Muir with me as my …

Letter From Geo[Rge] Nicholson To John Muir, 1903 Nov 13., George Nicholson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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I am fairly well - not well enough to have much energy to tackle anything serious in the way of work. I must next year see what tramping a little on a glacier will do. If anything will cause the oil of life to burn a little more brightly that is it I am sure. I was at a lecture a short time ago and saw a lot of Alaska slides on the screen. I was immensely interested in the series on account of your connection with the stickeen country. I hope you are keeping well and that you …

Letter From S. Edward Paschall To John Muir, 1903 Nov 9., S. Edward Paschall

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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November 9, 1903.

Mr. John Muir,

California,

Dear Sir:

Two of my children (sister of 25 years and brother of 24) visited California this year, and while in San Francisco heard a rumor of a proposed colony at Muir: possibly a colony in which you are interested. Can you give me information about it?
My family would like to live in a neighborhood or colony along with the "John Muir", and it is possible that we could in the not remote future arrange to transfer our home form this to that side of the continent. My son has just …

The Liberty Boys' Sharpshooters, Or, The Battle Of The Kegs, Harry Moore

Liberty Boys of "76"

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Letter From John Muir To [Family], 1903 Oct 23., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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[in margin: It's late, must [illegible] to bed & get up early I'm feeling well & getting stronger in spite of the long rough rides & hot weather-]

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Bombay Oct 23, 1903

Dear Louie & children

I expect to sail on the steamer "Peninsular" tomorrow for Egypt, lodging at [illegible]ez & going by rail to Cairo, I want also to see a little of Palestine if possible
I've seen far more of India than I expected The Simla region with its Deodar

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forests & views of the high white Himalaya was gloriously interesting & all the …

Letter From W[Illia]M Lord Smith To [John Muir], 1903 Oct 19., William Lord Smith

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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been put on the track of the famous [deodars]. I wish I might see them with you [even] will look [forward] [to] hearing about them.

Kindly let me have a few lines at Cook's office Bombay as [to] your wherabouts if you have not sailed and if you have left what line you have taken.

When you come [to] Massachusetts again I should be most happy [to? see you and hope you will not fail [to] look me up. You can easily find me, though at present I have no Boston address. The best of luck if we fail …

Letter From John Muir To Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1903 Oct 18., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Simla, India Oct. 18/03

Dear Louie, Im just about to leave Simla where I have had a grand time in the Deodar forests I so much wanted to see, & in the grand mountains. I have been here only 3 days but the elevation is over 7000 feet & the air bracing & reviving, so that though not used to walking these days I walked 6 miles yesterday around

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a wooded hill without fatigue The views of the snowy summits of the Himalaya at sunrise are perfectly glorious Simla, though rather hard to reach, is one …

Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir], [1903] Oct 17., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Simla, Oct 17. Dear Helen - wished you had seen the snowy Himalaya as from a ridge her 7000 ft high covered with Deodar. chestnut & rhodendron trees. The amber light is devine

J. M.

Letter From Henry G. Bryant To John Muir, 1903 Oct 13., Henry G. Bryant

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Mr. John Muir,
Martinez,California.

Dear Sir:-

One of the by-laws of the American Alpine Club (No.4) prescribes that "The Board of Directors shall XXXXXX consider names for Membership, and its approval shall be necessary before the names are submitted for election by the Club at large”. In view of the fast that the wide geographical dispersion of the members of the Board of Directors prevents frequent meetings of the Board and the consideration of candidates for membership it seems proper to Prof. Fay and the Philadelphia members of the Board to obtain the "approval" of the members of the Board …

Letter From Geo[Rge] Hansen To [John Muir], 1903 Oct 9., George Hansen

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Oct., 9th., 1905.

Dear friend oi' our home,

The first rain of the season. We know it is coming, but we impatiently wait for it, and we stream out in the open to drink the air laden with blessings, rich in fragrance. I too, "stressed " out with my "private carriage" of a wheeling chair , and I "recalled in mind all the "tarwoods" that I could discern in the over of the air. Their invigorating perfume come from over the Contra costa hills, the region that you choose for your material roof. And ere the day wore away when …

Letter From Helen Muir To [John Muir], 1903 Oct 7., Helen Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Mrs. Helen Lukens Jones sent me some pictures not long ago and wrote, sending you her best regards.
Write again soon and let us know where to send our letters.
Good night, with love from us all. Wanda will write soon.

Your loving daughter

Helen Muir.

Martinez,

October 7th - 1903.

Oct 7 03

Dear Papa,

We received your letter and two postal cards on the twenty ninth, and it did us all good to hear from you again. But I myself have received no letter since you left the Urals. mountains.
You have never told us yet whether …

Letter From John Muir To [Family], 1903 Oct 3., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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I reached Calcutta from Singapore on the night of Sep. 30. (only 3 days ago.) Next day visited the Calcutta Botanic gardens Saw the famous Banian Tree. etc. & many curious palms & ferns & orchids & people & places & at 4 P.M. took train for Darjeeling about 7000 feet above the sea which I reached next day in the afternoon. What a ride up the mountain it was & what a change of climate from the sweltering heat of the Ganges Delta to the snow cooled breezy heights in fr[illegible]

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Darjeeling, India

Oct 3, 1903.

Dear …

The Pacific Pharos, October, 1903, Students Of The University Of The Pacific

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Letter From John Muir To [William Keith], [1903 Oct]., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Egypt & Palestine Thence I mean to turn back homeward by way of Ceylon Australia N. Zealand the Islands etc Had a great time in Russia too- the Caucasus, Crimea Siberia, Manch[illegible]- strange I have to make these long journeys alone Can never get anybody to go with me even half the way You would

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Arabean Sea, 300 miles East of [illegible] Bahel[illegible] - on board steamship "Peninsular"

Dear Willie

I m having a grand time the [lonely?] I left the Sargents 6 or 7 weeks ago at Shanghai, they going to Pekin & I to …

Letter From Wanda [Muir] To [John Muir], [1903] Sep 19., Wanda Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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I wonder where you are and what you are doing this evening. It does seem so strange to be sending a letter to you to China but I hope it will reach you sooner than the ones we sent to Russia. I can't understand at all why you didn't hear from us for such a dreadfully long time for Helen and I have written

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Dear Papa

I enclose a letter from Mr Secor to you, The spoons and photograph which he speaks of reached Martinez safely and they are beauties but wasn't it a strange …

Letter From John Muir To [Bailey] Millard, 1903 Sep 16., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Hong Kong

Bayern.

Sep 16th 1903

My dear Millard-

I think I told you in another letter what a time we had in the Crimea, the Caucasus, Siberia & Manchuria, I am now on my way to India to the White Himmalaya. Am now traveling alone. in perfect freedom having left companions at Shanghai. May reach California about New Year or a little later

Cordially yours John Muir

Letter From John Muir To [Louie, Wanda & Helen], 1903 Sep 16., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Dont let Tinning forget the renewal of the Williams Note

Hong Kong

S.S. "Bayern," N. German Lloyd

September 16th 1903.

Dear Wife & Darlings, I wish you could be with me this morning on this fine steamship in this most wonderfully beautiful mountain gist harbor. Left Russia at Vladivostok Sep 3. worn out & starved out & poisoned out with 2 mos of R.R. travel & Russian food - Now I'm all right & getting fat - & am on my way to India to see the Himmalaya. I am alone & independent having parted from the Sargents a week …

Letter From Irene G. Wheelock To John Muir, 1903 Sep 16., Irene G. Wheelock

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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are yours. You can never be lonely with so much to know and to do, as well as to remember. Forgive me for trespassing on your time, Mr Muir, my envy got the better of me.
My book is in press and as soon as it is out, in November I shall take pleasure in sending you a copy.
Please remember me kindly to Mrs Muir, your daughters and your sister. I shall

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1040 Hinman Ave Evanston Ill.

September 16. 1903.

Mr John Muir,

Dear Sir,

The enclosed letter will be no greater surprise to you than it …

Letter From Helen Muir To John Muir, September 9, 1903, Helen Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Dear Papa, we have been watching for a letter from you all week, but have received no word since the postal card dated August 9th. So we do not know where you are. We are all well here, enjoying the beautiful autumn weather, but 2 it is so lonesome when we think of your being so far away. Have you received many of our letters yet? Mama received a letter from Baring Bros. today, in which they confirmed their answer “yes’ to her telegram enquiring whether they had forwarded your letters. I went over to see Aunt Margaret this evening …

Letter From John Muir To [Wanda Muir], 1903 Sep 8., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Nagasaki, Japan Sep. 8/03-

Arrived here from Vladivostok 2 hrs ago (9 a.m.) Sail at noon for Shanghai Thence dont know yet. [illegible] Lovingly J.M.

Letter From John Muir To [Louie] Muir, 1903 Sep 7., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

San-Wam, Korea

Sept. 7. 1903. —

Left Vladivostosk on the 3d. Have greatly enjoyed to sail down the Korean coast. Have made 3 landings in fiord [harbor?] like those of Alaska. Am glad to get afloat after two mos of most wearisome railriding. Was tired out. [Am now restored?] Ever lovingly J.M.

Letter From L. Wildman To [Louie Strentzel] Muir, 1903 Sep 4., L. Wildman

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

London 4 September 1903

Madam,

We have the pleasure to inform you that, since writing to you on the 28th August last, we have been able to collect the cost of our cable to you of the 26th idem.
We were unable to do so at the time, as the Telegraph Company here had not instructions to hand us a paid reply form: which mistake has, however, been since rectified by them.

We remain,

Madam

Your obedient servants

L. Wildman

Mrs. J. Muir.

Martinez

California.

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Letter From Wanda Muir To [John Muir], [Ca. 1903 Sep]., Wanda Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

I have a lot of work to do so good night. Write a little if you have time and I will again try to do the same.

Lovingly

Wanda

[T?] [illegible] [B?] House Monday night

fine and I wish very much that we had some of the things they have down there, up here in Berkeley, nevertheless I wore my California fir as conspicuously as possible and was glad I had a right to wear it.
I dont think anything else exciting has happened and

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Letter From J. W. B. Gair To [Louie Strentzel] Muir, 1903 Aug 28., J. W. B. Gair

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

28 August 1903.

Madam,

We beg to acknowledge your telegram as follows:-"Have you forwarded letter to John Muir travelling in Russia "with Professor Sargent of Arnold Arboretum - answer paid.

Mrs. John Muir.

and confirm our reply - "Yes."
All mail for Professor Sargent and his party has been duly forwarded in accordance with his instructions. The last orders we received were dated in Moscow, 29 July, and were to send to -
c/o The United States Legation, Peking , until further advise.
We may mention that the cost of reply to your enquiry was not prepaid, and we shall …

Letter From John Muir To [A. H.] Sellers, 1903 Aug 19., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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The greatest of our side excursions was one about 3000 miles long from the main line at Moscow thro. the Crimea along the Black Sea to Botoum, thence to Barjom in the grand Ante Caucasus & thence into & across the still grander main range with its many glaciers & nobly sculptured peaks from 15000 to over 18000 feet high We crossed from Tiflis to Vladivoscaz by the Dariel Pass & enjoyed


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Vladovostok

Aug. 19 1903.

My dear Sellers:

I hope you are again quite well. How often on this long trip Ive wished you were my companion. …