Creator

Kate M. Graydon

Recipient

John Muir

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00895[8]several acres in dimensions. When I get in the High School & become rich, I am coming out to see you, if “that adoring circle” will allow. Janet & I are afraid you do not intend coming in for another 12 years, we do not want to gaze at you thro’ spectacles or meet you on crutches, so we appoint your visit as next fall, to come in with Prof. Jordan. Another dozen years might see Merrill chief justice, & Janet & I having our rights. I leave all the sensible news for Prof. Jordan to tell. We are all well.Your friendKate M. Graydon.232 N. Ala. St.) [5]exploded. I heard your mother was living in Iowa, & you had not been near her for twelve years. And then while I supposed you had not a lady friend in the world, I heard you were the centre of an adoring circle of ladies in San Francisco. If you heard any one laugh about that time, it was I. (This last piece of news came from London.) See if I ever waste my sympathy on you again! so the Fort Wrangel press has just issued Emerson’s last. Mama has an antidote for Emerson in the Longer Cate[illegible]ism, the cure being so

Location

Indianapolis, [Ind]

Date Original

1880 Mar 28

Source

Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 25.5 cm.

Resource Identifier

muir04_0087-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 04, Image 0087

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 3

Keywords

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

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