Letter from John Muir to Mother [Ann Gilrye Muir], 1881 Jul 4.

• Main Author: Muir, John
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholarly Commons 1881
• Subjects: Environmentalist; naturalist; travel; conservation; national parks; John Muir; history; correspondence; letters; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Kol’; East Cape; Ice Sheet; Alaska
• Online Access: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/660; https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/muir-correspondence/article/1659/viewcontent/muir04_0641_md_1.pdf

78St Michaels Alaska July 4th 1881 –My dear Mother. Since I wrote you before from this place we have been again in the Arctic Ocean in search of the land party that we sent out from near Kol[illegible]chin Island to explore the Asiatic Coast to the westward, in search of tidings of the Jeanette &...