Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
David [Gilrye Muir]
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Transcription
1330Martinez Dec. 24 1888_Dear Brother David. To you & yours I wish with all my heart a merry & happy new Year & Christmas, May you make plenty of money for all the honey you may need to strengthen & sweeten your own life, & your wife's, & childrens, & a few cents & dollars more for friends & neigh- -bors, so that, however faint & diluted, all the world may be made a little better, a little sweeter from your having lived in it. This you know is a figure of speech & does not mean what is says but a merchant will understand what is meant in referring to all the grace & goodness of life as money without being drawn too rudely & far from the beloved ledger.Since your 2d marriage you have maintained a grand significant (or stupid) silence too happy for words I suppose or letters & only through others have I heard that you were well & prosperous. I too I am afraid have sinned in this matter of silence drifting on in streams & whirls of business care & pleasure
Location
Martinez, [Calif]
Date Original
1888 Dec 24
Source
Original letter dimensions: 27 x 21 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir05_1232-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 05, Image 1232
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 1
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
