Creator

Sarah [Muir Galloway]

Recipient

[John Muir & Louie Muir]

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[1]Portage. Wis.Decr 17th /88Dear Brother and SisterI wish you and the dear little girls a happy Christmas and joyful New Year. on looking back the year seems to have passed quickly away, and we are still spured to reach out to each other with kindly thoughts and heartfelt greet- -ings. May the New year bring to you God's best blessings with health and happiness and the power to enjoy them well.We are all pretty well here[2]here, Mother is in her usual health, she enjoys a walk as much as ever, but seems to get more easily tired than when you were here I think. Sister Annie still keeps improving and my own health is much better, I can do a good deal of work, and walk quite a little distance without getting too tired. We have much to be thankful for, more than we at all times realize, for I think one too often forgets how much there is that we may enjoy in reaching out often things that [we?] just

Location

Portage, Wisc.

Date Original

1888 Dec 17

Source

Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 25.5 cm.

Resource Identifier

muir05_1224-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 05, Image 1224

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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 1

Keywords

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

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