Creator
[Joanna Muir Brown]
Recipient
[John Muir]
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[2]magnificent weather I ever experienced; such a clear balmy, exhilarating air, as to make one feel that each inhalation brings added vigor and health, also a great deal of rainy weather, indeed we came just about the beginning of the wet season for they have very little snow and a great deal of rain in winter which has hindered matters business very considerably, another year he says it will not trouble him much as he will be all ready for it and have plenty of timber on hand for the mill, He is laying train roads all through the woods and will soon have a little engine to draw the log cars instead of oxen as01065 [1]he has now. He has only about thirty men employed at present but will have more as the business increases The pine timber is excellent and abundant. I like to go out and look up at the great, tall, straight, pinky colored trunks, they seem so grand, In speaking of the men employed I meant to say that Walter brought only the mill foreman and woods foreman from the North all the rest are southern men, a few colored ones, but most of the negroes are shamefully lazy. We have had our meals sent over from the boarding house thus far but I am going to have a spry little Mullato woman do my work pretty soon, she knows how
Location
Jefferson, Jefferson,Co., Ark.
Date Original
1882 Mar 24
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 25.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir04_0808-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 04, Image 0808
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 2
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
