Creator
Emily O. Pelton
Recipient
[John Muir]
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Transcription
01059[4]be sure to do so as it is not an easy trip in the stage. Thanks for your new years greeting. I am quite well, and never came out of a long term of school feeling better than I did this fall. I hear frequently from my eastern friends and Jessie is at home now feeling quite well excepting that her throat gives her some trouble as it did when here. Byron [Hewitt?] is still at P. du Chin, and is happy in having a little girl to brighten his home. She is their only child and is nearly a year old now. Uncles family are urging me to come home to them in Englewood in the Spring, and I think some of going. Mr Knox has grown old rapidly in the last few years. and is far from well. Come and[1]Brownsville Yuba Co Cal. Jan 6th 1882Dear old friend a happy new year. It has been months since I heard of you by the papers and still many months more since I saw your familliar handwriting. How are you? and where? Busy at home perhaps, with writing and wife and baby. Perhaps busy climbing — I shall be glad to know. Don’t say “I wrote you last for I have written you“ since I heard from you last winter or spring. I am requested by Mrs Knox to write and remind you of a promise once made her [in margin: see us my dear friend. Yours sincerely Emily - I expect to go to Chico in the coming month.]
Location
Brownsville, Yuba Co., Cal.
Date Original
1882 Jan 6
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 25 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir04_0780-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 04, Image 0780
Copyright Status
Copyright status unknown
Copyright Statement
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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 1
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
