Creator

Janet [Moores]

Recipient

John Muir

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1829 San Pablo Ave.,Oakland, Feb. 16th, 1887.My dear Mr. Muir:I was extremely disappointed when I heard of your visit, and I had not seen you! Twenty years is a long time. I do not suppose you would know me, if you met me, though I have not grown much, and I doubt whether I should recognize you. But we shall soon pick up the threads, I hope.I have been consulting Dr. Mauzy about my lame ankle and while at his house I met his wife and heard a great deal about you and your family of interest to myself and Mamma, so I wrote her all I knew about you, but I want to see for myself your wife and the little girls. I know I shall like them. Mr. Trumbull of San Rafael also knows you, so I feel not entirely a stranger, or that you are not a stranger rather. Mary [Merrill] and I want to go to Martinez Friday, if pleasant weather. If not, Saturday. If it rains Saturday I can't tell when it will be possible for us to go. We'll go up in the morning train, which leaves here, I think, between eight and nine. I have no paper to look up the time. I shall telephone you at the station, if I find that I have made a mistake as to the time.With kindest regards from us all to yourself and Mrs. Muir, I am as ever,Your friend,Janet [Moores]

Location

…Oakland, [Calif]

Date Original

1887 Feb 16

Source

Original letter dimensions: 18 x 22 cm.

Resource Identifier

muir05_0774-trans.tif

File Identifier

Reel 05, Image 0774

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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 3

Keywords

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

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