Creator
S[arah] A. Hodgson
Recipient
John Muir
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[2]spending all my leisure time in adorning my home with flowers, have laid out all my front yard in beds of fancy shapes edged with large shells pure white & am [putting?] all I can get in there both wild and [cultivated?] Have a hill of [illegible] luxuriant vine & [illegible] plants of [illegible] beautiful [illegible] with the white berries from [illegible], it is called the [Snowberry?] [plant?] [Went?] to [illegible] Key on purpose to get it. Mr. Hooper says I am planting asters for the [illegible] of [Mosquitoes?] in greater [nos?] I cant help it, I must have my flowers [illegible] the [illegible] sprig of "Sparkle berries (all I am said [illegible]) from "Auld Lang Syne" I have been able at last to purchase my home from the original [owner?], so I feel quite secure in placing my labour I [love?] on it to improve & embellish it, we do not forget [illegible] but we have to eat, as well as see & have about 20,000 [young?] grape leaves coming [among?] a couple of hundred lemons & limes 5-0 figs & 150 bananas & plantains with a few pine apples, so you see we have not been idle the past years [We have now?] a flourishing garden from which we are eating vegetables daily have [illegible] today - with [illegible]potatoes [illegible] Eddy send best respects to you says he wishes he had gone with you to Col [illegible] (but what would I have done without my Eddy near me)[3]He says if he does not succeed here as he wishes he will sell his place & go out there yet, but I hope he will be successful & stay near me while I live, Since I wrote you last my health has been very bad [indeed?] but after a [sore?]attack with my throat in Feb I have been improving & now feel as well as ever Hope to see you before the [10?] years expire paying me a visit here again & hope we will be able to [illegible] some considerable The name of [illegible] [was?] Wm. P. Croasdale (Croasdale) went to Texas somewhere, I cant tell you where, have never heard from him since he left Galveston for the interior. Mrs. [Richard?] return to Maine in bad health does not write to me, [Wife?] [Thompson?] is still [illegible] although I'm not [illegible] could easily be induced to change it [illegible] prefix. My other children are all well & still remember & think & speak of Mr. Muir oftenI have a lady [friend?] visiting me now for a while that I wish you could know she is the daughter of a [illegible] (Mrs. MacRae) I have [illegible] of you & read part of your last letter to him, [illegible] as I [illegible] will & any [illegible] die out [illegible] Mrs. H is now engaged in getting out [illegible] & [illegible] enough to make us a [supporter?] [illegible]
Location
Cedar Keys, Fla.
Date Original
1869 Apr 10
Source
Original letter dimensions: 25.5 x 40 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir02_0071-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0071
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
