Letter from Eldred J. D. Hercus to John Muir, 1904 Dec 24.

• Main Author: Hercus, Elfred J. D.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholarly Commons 1904
• Subjects: John Muir; correspondence; letters; author; writing; naturalist; California; correspondent; mail; message; post; exchange of letters; missive; notes; epistle; New Zealand; Iceland
• Online Access: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/2872; https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmcl/article/27805/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg

Mision [diacritic] Evangelica [diacritic]Tres ArroyosF.C.S. Argentina24/12/04Dear Mr Muir,Your kind note of inquiry of Nov. 3rd has been forwarded on to me here. It is now some 4 1/2 months since I bade farewell to England.Strangely enough I had been wondering about you just a day or two prior to receiving the letter, recalling our interesting talk in the Red Sea, and speculating as to the issue of your travels and the few suggestions I was able to give you. I am truly pleased to learn that the information was useful, and that you had so long a time in my beautiful country. The further I have traveled the more I turn back to New Zealand as the scenic country of the world - a compendium of Europe from Iceland to Italy.But you have much vaster experience and means of judging, so that I should be particularly pleased to see your impressions if you happen to have put them in print at all. The book of which you kindly speak I will value.My wife and I are busy learning Spanish, and I have already taught school and preached at various times. Sociologically this country is most interesting, and to the west, north and south I should expect the face of nature to be more so than the flat windswept tussocky plains around this town. For myself I have to confess my chief contact with the animal world consists in application of03485 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/27805/thumbnail.jpg