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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1899 Jul 8., John Muir Jul 1899

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1899 Jul 8., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Oonalaska July 8 1899

My dear Johnson

Have just a few minutes before the Loredo sails Hence this hasty scrawl Ive wished a 1000 times you were with us on this fine wild trip. It is just what you need How cool & grand the icy scenery & how beautiful. The St Elias & Fairweather glacial Mtns are glorious & its harmonies of ice & fire & green flowery slopes.
We are going to the Seal Islands from here & thence to St Laurence Isld & some points on the Siberian Coast then home. All are well. No discord as …

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Letter From Harvey Reid To John Muir, 1899 Jul 7., Harvey Reid Jul 1899

Letter From Harvey Reid To John Muir, 1899 Jul 7., Harvey Reid

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

July 7th 1899

Prof. John Muir

Martinez Cal.

My Dear sir: -

I picked up today a recent number of current literature which contained an extract from Prof. Olaf Ellison's article in the May "Self-Culture" paying an enthusiastic tribute to what you have done for science and manhood, and then I found and read the entire article.
The short biography therein fully answers, I think, a query that has floated through my mind many times for the last thirty eight years, [illegible]: "What became of the John Muir, who, in the spring of 1861, occupied a room in North …

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Letter From John Muir To Louie [Muir], 1899 Jul 3., John Muir Jul 1899

Letter From John Muir To Louie [Muir], 1899 Jul 3., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Kodiak. July 3, 1899

Dear Louie -

I sent you a word from Homer, as Katchemak Bay, a branch of Cook Inlet last week when we intended to go on up the main Inlet to the head. But the plans were changed & we sailed across the mouth of the Inlet & down the coast of the Alaska peninsula to Kukak Bay where at midnight a party of ornithologists & mice catchers were landed with their presses & traps to work a week or so. Thence we sailed to Yuyak Bay on the northwest side of Kodiak Island near the …

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Letter From [John Muir] To Wanda And Helen [Muir], 1899 Jul 3., John Muir Jul 1899

Letter From [John Muir] To Wanda And Helen [Muir], 1899 Jul 3., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Kodiak. July 3. 99

Darlings Wanda & Helen.

I have often thought how fine it would be to have you on this trip. The Harriman & [Averil?] girls & Miss Draper about your own ages enjoy it so much & have so bright & merry & instructive time. So many grand mountains with birds & flowers & glaciers & waterfalls & so many wise men to tell them about all they see. Everyday is delightful & even when we were out on the open ocean the ship was so steady nobody was seriously seasick a single hour. Some day you …

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Letter From John Muir To [Charles A.] Keeler, [Ca. 1899 Jul]., John Muir Jul 1899

Letter From John Muir To [Charles A.] Keeler, [Ca. 1899 Jul]., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Dear Mr Keeler

We are all glad to hear of your good time in the wilds. Here is a nice notice of your book. Remember me to Mrs Keeler & the lass & come to see us as soon as you get out of the wood.

[in margin: Dr Merriam is coming out soon.]

Good luck to your next book

Ever Your Friend

John Muir

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Letter From Sarah [Muir Galloway] To Dan[Iel H. Muir], 1899 Jun 26., Sarah Muir Galloway Jun 1899

Letter From Sarah [Muir Galloway] To Dan[Iel H. Muir], 1899 Jun 26., Sarah Muir Galloway

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Portage Wis.

June 26. /99

My dear Brother Dan =

The paper containing the item that you marked reached us today. I hope and pray that if it be the Lords will your dear little boy will recover.
I know that your hearts are breaking as you watch over your darling who is so ill. and you know how deeply I can sympathize with you all, and I think of [Emilia?] too who is not strong, but I will hope for news of gain & received strength soon.

Love to you all from

Sarah.

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Letter From John Muir To Louie, [Wanda & Helen], 1899 Jun 24., John Muir Jun 1899

Letter From John Muir To Louie, [Wanda & Helen], 1899 Jun 24., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

To Mrs. Muir

Off Prince William-Sound,
June 24, 1899

Dear Louie and darlings:

We are just approaching Prince William Sound - the place above all others I have long wished to see. The snow and ice-laden mountains loom grandly in crowded ranks above the dark, heaving sea, and I can already trace the courses of some of the largest of the glaciers. It is two P.M., and in 3or 4 hours we shall be at Orca, near the mouth of the bay, where I will mail this note.
We had a glorious view of the mountains and glaciers in sailing …

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Letter From John Muir To Louie, [Wanda & Helen], 1899 Jun 21., John Muir Jun 1899

Letter From John Muir To Louie, [Wanda & Helen], 1899 Jun 21., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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& sculpture all around & the forests & gardens rich far beyond what I had looked for I hope all goes well with you. We will probably be here abouts a week & Ill write again This unexpected chance I am using for this hasty note

Love to all

J Muir

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Homer. Cook Inlet

June 21, 99

Dear Louie & darlings

We are just entering this famous inlet 9 A.M. Lovely morning all well. Sun shining gloriously on the ice & water & snowy mountains We had a grand time in Prince Williams Sound Found 9 glaciers discharging …

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Letter From John Muir To Louie, Wanda & Helen, 1899 Jun 16., John Muir Jun 1899

Letter From John Muir To Louie, Wanda & Helen, 1899 Jun 16., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

June 16 1899

Dear Louie Wanda & Helen:.

I wrote two days ago & I suppose you will get this at the same time as the other. We had the Governor at dinner & a society affair afterward that looked queer in the wilderness. This eve we are to have a reception at the Governors & tomorrow we sail for Yakutat Bay Thence to Prince William Sound & Cooks Inlet etc. We were at the Hot Springs yesterday 15 miles from here amid lovely scenery. The Topeka arrived last eve & sails in an hour or so. I met …

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Letter From [John Muir] To Louie [Helen & Wanda], 1899 Jun 14., John Muir Jun 1899

Letter From [John Muir] To Louie [Helen & Wanda], 1899 Jun 14., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

To Mrs. Muir

Sitka, June 14, 1899

Dear Louie and. bairns:

We are just entering Sitka harbor after a delightful sail down Peril Straits, and a perfectly glorious time in Glacier Bay-5 days of the most splendid weather I ever saw in Alaska. I was out 3 days with Gilbert and Palache revisiting the glaciers at the upper end of Bay. Great changes have taken place. The Pacific Glacier has melted back four miles and changed into three separate glaciers, each discharging bergs, in grand style. One of them, unnamed and unexplored, I named last evening, in a lecture they …

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Letter From John Muir To Louie, Wanda & Helen, [1899] Jun 6., John Muir Jun 1899

Letter From John Muir To Louie, Wanda & Helen, [1899] Jun 6., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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[1899]

Juneau, June 6.

Cold rainy day. 9A.M.
We stop here only a few minutes & I have only time to scribble love to my darlings The green mountains rise into the gray cloudy sky 4000 ft. rich in trees & grass & flowers & wild goats.
We are all well & happy Yesterday was bright & the mountains all the way up from Wrangell were passed in review opening their snowy icy recesses & closing them like turning over the leaves of a grand picture book. Everybody gazed at the grand glaciers & peaks. & we saw icebergs …

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Letter From John Muir To Helen And Wanda [Muir], [1899] Jun 5., John Muir Jun 1899

Letter From John Muir To Helen And Wanda [Muir], [1899] Jun 5., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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7 AM.

Fort Wrangell - June 5, [1899]

How are you all. We arrived here last evening. This is a lovely morning. Water like glass. Looks like home. The flowers are in bloom. So are the forests. We leave in an hour for Juneau. The mountains are pure white. The weather all the way up cool & clear everybody well & happy Went to church yesterday at Metlakhatla, heard Duncan preach & the Indians sing Had fine ramble in the woods with Burroughs. He is ashore looking and listening for birds. The song sparrow a little dun speckledy muggins …

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Letter From Walter H. Page To John Muir, 1899 Jun 3., Walter H. Page Jun 1899

Letter From Walter H. Page To John Muir, 1899 Jun 3., Walter H. Page

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

read and corrected here, because it could hardly follow you to Alaska and I could not for a moment think of delaying its publication until you should come back and have time to read the proof and send it across the continent to me again. This is too good a thing to wait that long for. Besides, your copy is very plain indeed, and I think we shall make no mistakes.

Very heartily yours,

Walter [illegible]

Mr. John Muir.

June 3, 1899.

My dear Mr. Muir,

This will not reach you, I know, until you get back from Alaska, and …

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Letter From John Muir To Louie [Muir], 1899 Jun 1., John Muir Jun 1899

Letter From John Muir To Louie [Muir], 1899 Jun 1., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)


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etc. The company is very harmonious for scientists. Yesterday I trampted over Seattle with John Burroughs At Portland the Mazamas were very demonstrative and kind. I hope you are all busy with the hay. Helen will keep it well tumbled & tramped with Keenies help. I am making many pleasant acquaintances
Give my love to Maggie Good-bye

Ever your affectionate husband

John Muir

Victoria, June 1, 1899

Dear Louie.

We sail from here in about two hours & I have just time to say another goodbye.
The ship is furnished in fine style & I find we are going …

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Letter From John Muir To Helen And Wanda [Muir], 1899 Jun 1., John Muir Jun 1899

Letter From John Muir To Helen And Wanda [Muir], 1899 Jun 1., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

glad to see me. I brought Prof Brewer with me & am writing while he is talking. But now we must get back to the ship.

Goodbye darlings

John Muir

Victoria June 1, 1899

My dear Helen & Wanda

I hope you are so busy & happy

[in margin: 728]

you dont miss me too much. Be kind to Tom & [Stickine?]. We are now fairly off. The weather is foggy & rainy & we cant see much landscape but we can smell much brimrose & honeysuckle, I am writing this in Prof Andersons office in the Government Building. Anderson …

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Letter From John Muir To Wanda And Helen [Muir], 1899 May 31., John Muir May 1899

Letter From John Muir To Wanda And Helen [Muir], 1899 May 31., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1]

[letterhead]

May 31

12 noon

Dear babies Wanda & Helen.

I came here last night on the special train the most velvety soft & superb train I ever saw. John Burroughs was the first to greet me in the crowd. & I Have been shaking hands ever since The party are exceptionally good natured for scientists Not a single fight Yet Brewer is [hale?] & hearty as ever He alone might be trusted to keep all calm & harmonious. He has a regular peace-be-still face. Fernow is very jolly. Fernow the botantist such a Capital fellow

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[letterhead] …

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Letter From John Muir To Louie [Muir], 1899 May 30., John Muir May 1899

Letter From John Muir To Louie [Muir], 1899 May 30., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

May 30 1899

Dear Louie

The party are all here & we are about to start Have seen Burroughs Brewer & the Harrimans etc a fine looking lot. We are off for Seattle.
Will send a note before sailing tomorrow.
Here is a list of lot. Louie Wanda Helen Maggie [Ona?] more

Goodbye

Ever Yours

John Muir

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Letter From John Muir To Louie [Muir], 1899 May 29., John Muir May 1899

Letter From John Muir To Louie [Muir], 1899 May 29., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1]

[letterhead]

May 29th 1899

Dear Louie

We arrived here yesterday fournoon & expected to join the train this afternoon But a telegram from the train tells us that we will not leave for Seattle until tomorrow evening, the train arrives here early tomorrow morning
In the meantime we are getting a fine rest at Portland Hotel. Charlie Keeler is capital company & a good fellow everyway Im going to try now that the rain ceased to find someone that can tell me about the Rainier Park
I guess our party will be large Here are some clippings which tell …

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Letter From John Muir To Louie [Wanda And Helen Muir], 1899 May 27., John Muir May 1899

Letter From John Muir To Louie [Wanda And Helen Muir], 1899 May 27., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[2]

We have pleasant company & I hope to talk of [illegible] a gentleman is on our car A R, R. man who is going to meet Harriman at Portland. He says that his train will be at Portland Monday morning so we will join the party there instead of at Seattle.
Goodbye Take good care of yourselves & my M.S.S. & Heaven help you to do so. Im feeling well

Ever Thine

J.M.

[1]

Klamath River

M. 27. 99

Dear Louie & babes

We are having a fine

[in margin: 735]

ride Shastas head is on a cloud It …

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Letter From Walter H. Page To John Muir, 1899 May 26., Walter H. Page May 1899

Letter From Walter H. Page To John Muir, 1899 May 26., Walter H. Page

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

EDITORIAL OFFICE OF

The Atlantic Monthly,
BOSTON.

May 26, 1899.

Dear Mr, Muir,

It is a great pleasure to have your telegram saying that your article on the Yosemite Park has today been sent. You have no idea of how hearty the welcome for it will be---heartier than anything else except the welcome that we shall give you when you come again. I hope that you will follow this along as promptly as possible with other articles and let us have the book ready within a very little while after the other papers have appeared in the magazine.

Very truly …

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Letter From John Muir To [A. H.] Sellers, 1899 May 26., John Muir May 1899

Letter From John Muir To [A. H.] Sellers, 1899 May 26., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

May 26, 1899

My dear Sellers

Goodbye, I am off for Alaska on the Harriman Expedition to be gone two months or more.
It goes to Prince Williams Sound Cook's Inlet & Kodiak. The only part of the coast I have not seen [illegible] I was very glad of the opportunity though I am busy writing.
I need a rest anyhow. I [illegible] so do you. I wish you were going
Keith starts Monday for Europe & of course you will see him He he been doing some fine painting & is sick happy & grotesque. Goodbye

Ever Yours …

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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1899 May 25., John Muir May 1899

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1899 May 25., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, May 25, 1899

My dear Johnson--

Thanks for your good wishes. How grand it would be were you going too. You need a long cool trip as much as I do & I'm just dying for wildness
The last winter has been hard & barren--forest fighting & sickness in the family benumbed & Interrupted everything-
I got off one article on the Yosemite Park--Your Park--today & have 4 more half done to be finished in the fall.

We must make a glacial trip together

Ever Yours

John Muir

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Letter From John Muir To [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1899 May 25., John Muir May 1899

Letter From John Muir To [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1899 May 25., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[blank?] going to Alaska

Martinez, May 25, 1899.

My dear Mr Lukens

I am going to S.F. tomorrow & if I can hear of Mr Turney I will gladly recommend you for forest work. Though it is not often that the best men get the places under government. When all these forest positions are brought under civil service rules a very great gain will be made.
I am starting for Alaska with the Harriman expedition & expect to see the glaciers in Cooks Inlet & Prince Williams Sound Goodbye.

Ever Yours

John Muir

Remember me to Lottie

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Letter From John Muir To [Charles A.] Keeler, 1899 May 19., John Muir May 1899

Letter From John Muir To [Charles A.] Keeler, 1899 May 19., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez. May 19, 1899

My dear Mr Keeler,

I am glad you are going on the Harriman expedition Dr Merriam telegraphs me that we leave Seattle on the 30th.
How are you going to Seattle? Let us go up together. If by rail I suppose we should start next Saturday. Please drop me a line.

Ever Yours Truly

John Muir

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Letter From Walter H. Page To John Muir, 1899 May 16., Walter H. Page May 1899

Letter From Walter H. Page To John Muir, 1899 May 16., Walter H. Page

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Will you not please send me as definite a statement as you feel disposed to Send, mentioning the titles and giving some little idea of what ground the papers will cover
With all hearty good wishes, believe Me
Sincerely yours,

Walter H.PageMr. John Muir.

EDITORIAL OFFICE OF
THE Atlantic Monthly,
BOSTON.

May 16, 1809.

My dear Mr.Muir,

WE have been looking and hoping for the papers that you were to send for the Atlantic. When I remind you that they are long overdue, you know me too Well to accuse me of any impatience la the reminder, because we are …

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Letter From John Muir To [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1899 May 14., John Muir May 1899

Letter From John Muir To [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1899 May 14., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Congratulating me on good article

Martinez. May 14/99

My dear Lukens,

Im just getting ready to start on a trip North to Cooks Inlet Kodiak etc with a scientific party & of course I can't accept your flattering invitation to talk to the new & vigorous Foust - Assoc. I heartily congratulate you on getting so many good men to work on so good a cause. The address to the Secretary is Capital with men able to write such a paper You can have no need of me in that Association.
I am very glad to hear from you give …

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Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1899 May 13., Charles Sprague Sargent May 1899

Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1899 May 13., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Jamaica Plain, Mass, May 13, 1899.

My dear Muir:

I am glad you are going to Cook's Inlet if you want to go but I wish you had a more sympathetic and lively crowd of companions; still if you get them on a small ship you will be able to do a good deal of talking without allowing them a chance for escape.
Canby and I had a pleasant time but hard to work and hot weather. We saw oceans of lovely flowers and every day regretted that you were not with us.
I understand from your letter that you …

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Letter From E[Dward] H[Enry] Harriman To John Muir, 1899 May 12., Edward Henry Harriman May 1899

Letter From E[Dward] H[Enry] Harriman To John Muir, 1899 May 12., Edward Henry Harriman

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Subject :

UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY.

EXECUTIVE OFFICES,
120 BROADWAY.

NEW YORK, May 12, 1899.

John Muir, Esq.,
Martinez,
Cal.

Dear Sir:

At the meeting of the Invitation Committee held on the 8th inst. it was arranged that the party for Alaska will start from the Grand Central Depot, Forty-second Street, New York, by special train, on Tuesday afternoon, May 23rd, 1899.
Please telegraph me at the above address where you can be reached by wire, so that you may be advised later of the hour at which the boat will leave.
I expect the boat will leave Seattle on …

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1899 May 11., Robert Underwood Johnson May 1899

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1899 May 11., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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May 11, 1899.

R. W. GILDER, EDITOR.
R.U.JOHNSON,
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
C C. BUEL,
ASSISTANT EDITOR.

Mr. John Muir,
Martinez, California.

My dear Muir,

I hear that you are going off to Alaska in the Harriman party, in which, I believe, Burroughs is to be.
This is good luck to you; and perhaps The Century will profit by the stimulus which it shall give to your pen.

Faithfully yours,

R.u. [illegible]

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Letter From John Muir To [C. Hart] Merriam, 1899 May 9., John Muir May 1899

Letter From John Muir To [C. Hart] Merriam, 1899 May 9., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Cal.

May 9, 1899

My dear Mr. Merriam,

Yours of the 4th just received. I wrote about a week ago stating I would go. I'm delighted to learn that Burroughs, Brewer, and Chas. Keeler are going. I wish you would wire me when the party leaves New York. Also let me know the Seattle headquarters. Anticipating an extra pleasant and instructive trip, I am with much cause for thanks

Very truly yours,

JOHN MUIR

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