Creator
James D[avie] Butler
Recipient
John Muir
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[3]house while you convalesce, and repeat your walks around our peerless lakes. Henry and I join with her in hopes you will so do. For several weeks past I have suffered in both lungs and liver. On one day, the only time in my nine years here, I was utterly unable to climb the University hill. My health in now much improved, and I am spending much time on books of travel hoping I may some time cross the broad water yet once more. Nothing has varied the routine of our quiet life since I wrote you before. We have a new Minister and my wife is killing herself at a festival to raise him money.[2] I know well it is one thing to reason - and quite another thing to feel as one knows he should in pain, darkness, and gloom hovering over the future. In all the blasting of your hope may you find Christ to be more precious than you right eye! Be assured He knoweth our frame, and pitieth the souls he hath made. I have now a double joy that you are known to the Merrill brotherhood, for I know that some of your sorrows will be hence alleviated. May no sympathetic evil afflict your other eye! May light dawn for you on a dishensation at first so dark! My wife bids you as you get better to come and see us, - making our house your
Location
Madison, Wis[c.]
Date Original
1867 Mar 20
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 25.5 cm
Resource Identifier
muir01_0954-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 01, Image 0954
Copyright Status
Copyright status unknown
Copyright Statement
Some letters written to John Muir may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
Owning Institution
University of the Pacific Library Holt-Atherton Special Collections. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Page Number
Page 2
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
