Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Mary and Willis Hand
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[2]& therefore they must I suppose leave very soon though they need rest & change of climate & seem more than any two other women I have ever seen out of bed. It seems strange to hear you speak of fine weather & 34 degrees below zero. The hills here were green & flowery until yesterday & we could still glean a few good grapes in the vineyard but now we have a truly wintery land & sky & the ground has several inches of snow, a sight I have not seen before in the California lowlands before.[3]I can hardly say after so many failures when I shall have that happy visit to you all. but I am coming sometime. As to the big camp meeting for the purpose of experience telling in our scattered family I hardly hope for it though it would be a grand & very bulky affair The trouble or difficulty in the way of such a gathering is that one strikes root more or less deeply wherever we chance to stop any length of time & in the case of a large family like ours growing on different kinds of soil & with varying [pursuits?] etc death is about the only harvester that can bring us together
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1883 Jan 1
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Resource Identifier
muir04_0994-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 04, Image 0994
Copyright Status
Copyrighted
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
John Muir National Historic Site. 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 2
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
