Millet to Stoddard: June 23, 1885
Letter 25: Letters of Frank Millet to Charles Warren Stoddard: May 10, 1875 - January 3, 1900
[On Millard Hotel stationery]
Omaha, Neb, June 23, 1885
My dear Charlie: -- I have been on the go so much that it has got near the 25th of
June, your starting day, before I knew it. I intended to write you from St. Paul but
finding that Mr. Adams had to stay there 2 or 3 days two of us took the
opportunity of making a trip in a Mississippi steamboat and a circus we did have
too. You had better try that on your return trip. Take the boat at St. Paul and get
off at Savanna, only 138 miles from Chicago. It is well worth while for it is quite
old fashioned and in my experience quite novel. I am glad you are going to the
N.W. You will find Columbia River the best worth seeing of any river in the U.S.
From above Dalles to Portland it is superb. You want to get up early so as to see
the river rushing through the black rocks with Mt. Hood rising like a pure [page 2]
white pyramid in the background and a camp of Indians in the foreground. Puget
Sound is fine on account of the Mountains. We went all over it in a special boat.
Hunt up Mr. Dodge the supt. of the navigation and introduce yourself. He is a
first rate fellow. I think he is often at Tacoma. At any rate he is easily found. At
Seattle if you stop, kill a newspaper man for me. He stole a letter of mine to
publish. A young banker named Kittinger is a good fellow and will show you the
reporter to kill for me. Victoria is the best worth seeing of any town up that way.
You will like it. I’m awfully sorry to have missed you. If you had only been there
we would have had a glorious time.
We are off for Colorado in a day or two. I expect to get to New York by the last
week in July. I have letters from England saying my family got there all right. We
have a beautiful house there which we intend to occupy summers only. Come
over and write a novel! I hope this will catch you before you leave. Write me!
Care J.R. Callaway Gen Man U.P. R’y, Omaha
With much love
Thine
Frank
