Letter from [John Muir] to Wanda, Helen [Louie], 1899 Jul 8.
To Wanda MuirUnalaska, July 8, 1899My dear Wanda and Helen and Mama:We arrived here this cloudy, rainy, foggy morning after a glorious sail from Sand Harbor on Unga Island, one of the Shumagin group, all the way along the volcano-dotted coast of the Alaska Peninsula and Unimak Island. The volcanoes...
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ftunivpacificdc:oai:scholarlycommons.pacific.edu:jmcl-27560 2023-08-27T04:11:57+02:00 Letter from [John Muir] to Wanda, Helen [Louie], 1899 Jul 8. Muir, John 1899-07-08T08:00:00Z image/jpeg https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/2627 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmcl/article/27560/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg eng eng Scholarly Commons https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/2627 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmcl/article/27560/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Fees-and-Forms-.html John Muir Correspondence John Muir correspondence letters author writing naturalist California correspondent mail message post exchange of letters missive notes epistle text 1899 ftunivpacificdc 2023-08-07T21:20:10Z To Wanda MuirUnalaska, July 8, 1899My dear Wanda and Helen and Mama:We arrived here this cloudy, rainy, foggy morning after a glorious sail from Sand Harbor on Unga Island, one of the Shumagin group, all the way along the volcano-dotted coast of the Alaska Peninsula and Unimak Island. The volcanoes are about as thick as haycocks on our alfalfa field in a wet year, and the highest of them are smoking and steaming in grand style, Shishaldin is the handsomest volcanic cone I ever saw and it looked like this last evening. [Drawing], I'll show you a better sketch in my notebook when I get home. About 9,000 ft. high, snow and ice on its slopes, hot and bare at the top. A few miles from Shishaldin that blew or burst its own head off a few years ago, and covered the sea with ashes and cinders and killed fish and raised a tidal wave that lashed the shores of San Francisco and even Martinez.There is a ship, the Loredo, that is to sail in an hour, so I'm in a hurry, as usual. We are going to the Seal Islands and St. Lawrence Island from here, and a point or two on the Siberian Coast-then home. We are taking on coal, and will leave in three or four hours. I hope fondly that you are all well.[Give my love to Maggie. I hope May's baby is well.] I'll soon be back, my darlings. God bless you.Goodbye.[John Muir]73802601 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/27560/thumbnail.jpg Text Seal Islands St Lawrence Island Alaska University of the Pacific: Scholarly Commons Lawrence Island ENVELOPE(-103.718,-103.718,56.967,56.967) Seal Islands ENVELOPE(69.633,69.633,-48.950,-48.950) |
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To Wanda MuirUnalaska, July 8, 1899My dear Wanda and Helen and Mama:We arrived here this cloudy, rainy, foggy morning after a glorious sail from Sand Harbor on Unga Island, one of the Shumagin group, all the way along the volcano-dotted coast of the Alaska Peninsula and Unimak Island. The volcanoes are about as thick as haycocks on our alfalfa field in a wet year, and the highest of them are smoking and steaming in grand style, Shishaldin is the handsomest volcanic cone I ever saw and it looked like this last evening. [Drawing], I'll show you a better sketch in my notebook when I get home. About 9,000 ft. high, snow and ice on its slopes, hot and bare at the top. A few miles from Shishaldin that blew or burst its own head off a few years ago, and covered the sea with ashes and cinders and killed fish and raised a tidal wave that lashed the shores of San Francisco and even Martinez.There is a ship, the Loredo, that is to sail in an hour, so I'm in a hurry, as usual. We are going to the Seal Islands and St. Lawrence Island from here, and a point or two on the Siberian Coast-then home. We are taking on coal, and will leave in three or four hours. I hope fondly that you are all well.[Give my love to Maggie. I hope May's baby is well.] I'll soon be back, my darlings. God bless you.Goodbye.[John Muir]73802601 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/27560/thumbnail.jpg |
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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://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Fees-and-Forms-.html |
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