Letter from Geo[rge] Nicholson to John Muir, 1903 Nov 13.

• Main Author: Nicholson, George
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholarly Commons 1903
• Subjects: Environmentalist; naturalist; travel; conservation; national parks; John Muir; history; correspondence; letters; Hooker; Nicholson; Traveller; glacier; Alaska
• Online Access: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2711; https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/muir-correspondence/article/3710/viewcontent/muir13_0866_let.pdf

[4]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 are better in every way for your long absence from home - and no worse for such long and arduous journeys.Yours very sincerelyGeo Nicholson.[1][letterhead]13. x1.03Dear Mr MuirYour letter of 28 Oct gave me genuine pleasure. I had often wondered where you were and how you were getting on. I envy your trip to Darjeeling &c: the "immemorial East" has been the dream of my life and I fear the reality will never come now. At least you will have had distant glimpses of the roof of the world. A fellow03307 [2]traveller and climber has given me urgent invitations to go to him in India, and promises to show me the mountains, so if my health permits I may after all get to Darjeeling &c. I fairly hunger for the mountains and feel sure I should pick up if I got within sight of the eternal snows. This year I have seen nothing beyond the snow clad hills (Lochnagar &c) of Scotland and was only in reality a day in real hilly country. I look forward with great pleasure to a letter from you after your arrival at home and shall look out for your "impressions[3]de voyage" when published. I wrote Sir Joseph Hooker for a copy of Sir William Hooker's life but he had none left. So I post with this my own copy - I can always refer to another copy at Kew if I want to. L[illegible] Stephens' Playground of Europe also goes by this mail - I hope you will experience as much pleasure in reading it as I did. Sir Joseph Hooker is apparently much better than he was in the early part of the year - I have not seen him myself lately but he has been at work in the ...