Creator

John Muir

Recipient

[Helen & Wanda Muir]

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[2]I came up last eve to get letter[s?]. I'm so glad Helen you are so well Ive found a glorious lot of books on ancient botany - wished I could buy them. I suppose a year or more would be required to gather them from the worlds book markets. But strange to say few of the writers on the old carboniferous forests know more about them than we do & we will surely be able to make a good picture of [those?] wh flourished about[1]May's, May 13, 1906GAMMA PHI BETAETADarlings, I hope you are enjoying your last free Adamana outdoors as you should, How glad I'll be to get our little family together again in our little valley. I've still another home [illegible] I'm at Charlie [illegible]ers only 5 minutes west from the Sig-Less. Calamites Library where I shall probably be found until called by the bells - wedding bells - the only confounding kind able to draw me from my own work ways

Location

[Martinez, Calif.]

Date Original

1906-05-13 00:00

Source

Original letter dimensions unknown.

Resource Identifier

muir16_0233-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 16, Image 0233

Copyright Statement

The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission to publish or exhibit them, see http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Fees-and-Forms-.html

Owning Institution

The Huntington Library, Muir Family Papers, HM 57349-57497. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.

Copyright Holder

Muir-Hanna Trust

Copyright Date

1984

Page Number

Page 1

Keywords

John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle

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