Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Annie Kennedy] Bidwell
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[4]How grand an outburst of bloom there will be about your home when the spring & sunshine is warm & what a rising from the dead in the dry levels cast of your house among the gilias & newsphilas & daisies. Go ahead with your botany, & make your floral hay while your free summer days last Remember me to the General I will see you when ever I can. Cordially your friend, John Muir. [1] 920 Valencia St. San Francisco, Feb 17th 1879.Dear Mrs Bidwell, I have no distinct memory of the incident that has given you so much uneasiness. So you see how unfounded it was. I was sorry to have missed seeing the General, I went out to your friends on Ellis St to find out where he was stopping, & then hastened to the [ Occidental?], but he had returned to Chico the day before. As to the cordial invitation to your pretty home I can only assure you both that I warmly appreciate your kindness & will make use of it without reserve whenever [deleted: I] fate or the wind or providence pushes me to Chico. I usually[address envelope: Mrs General Bidwell. Chico Butte County, California.
Location
920 Valencia St. San Francisco, [Calif]
Date Original
1879 Feb 17
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Resource Identifier
muir03_1002-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 03, Image 1002
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley. 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
