Creator
Mary [Muir]
Recipient
[John Muir]
Preview
Transcription
[8]may make your home with me and I will illustrate your articles – That is well arranged surely – Joanna is getting well quite rapidly and we think she is going to get real well. Maggie is not as well as usual just now. Annie and Mother are about as usual – and so am I – By this time they are all asleep but me and it is time I was sleeping too so good night – I wonder if I shall hear from you soon – Love from all the sleeping ones and much from myself Affectionately your sis Mary[in margin: 588]00795 [5]books receive less of my attention than I like – For some time I have been very busy- but it is so hard to dispose of pictures [underlined: these times] that I have to work for little and so am not getting rich at all unless maybe – in the practice and training – I have been crayoning portraits more than anything else [deleted: for the] in the past two years, although I have not really neglected work in oil’s I finished an oil picture 18 x 27 in. last Saturday It is a night scene – a landscape – It is from one of Miss Cushman’s pictures. I imagine you would think it good.
Location
Portage, Wis
Date Original
1878 May 27
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20 x 25 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir03_0830-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 03, Image 0830
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 3
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
