Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Mother [Ann Gilrye Muir]
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Transcription
[2]with her bright blue eyes as steadily as if she were a year old instead of only two days. And her cheecks & brow & mouth & nose & dimpled chin are as finely modellest & composed as if she were in her ripe teens. Heaven bless her & make all her life as happy & loveful as the promise in every quarter is now. The weather is warm & tranquil & the sun is beaming lovingly on the green hills & blossoming orchards about our home, & the larks & linnets are singing in full spring time chorus. How beautiful the world is, & how beautiful is the time of the coming of our little love. You remember[3]that it was bloom time of the year when we were married, & our little bloom bud baby has arrived in the midst of the richest bloom of the orchards. The cherry trees in particular are one mass of white petals looking as if laden with fleecy snow, while the purple & rose flowers of the quince & peach & apple trees, & the white of the plum is hardly less showy & lavishly abundant. A happier pair of grand parents than the two Strentzels never was since the beginning of the baby begetting period on earth. How glad we would be to have her Muir grandmother & father
Location
Martinez, California
Date Original
1881 Mar 27
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20 x 25 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir04_0460-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 04, Image 0460
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
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.
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
