Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[David Gilrye Muir]
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[4]valley, because he settled upon it under the prevention laws. before it was donated by congress to the state for a pleasure ground etc - But his claims are contested. & he is in Washington at present seeking satisfaction from government - I am not annoyed with over much gold at present I will have about a thousand dollars in the fall. I may need one or two hundred dolls myself & I promised to let Mary have enough to keep her at Madison a year or so if she wishes it & you may have the rest Dan or the girls may want some of it & if in the course of human events I be over taken with calamities such as sickness or marriage I shall need it myself I fear that so small a sum[in margin: with so many indeterminate conditions dangling about it will be of little use to you]00507 [1] [May, 1870] 1stYou say that you have some thoughts of retiring from the dry goods business I think you had better not be discouraged by these hard times. So great a number of depressing influences do not often occur at the same time After learning your business "stay with it" as Califorians say, untill you make a competence. If however you have come to dislike your business in itself apart from the accidental losses & depressions of hard times, then by all means leave it soon as possible You are still a young man & it is well worth your while to battle with the vexations & inconveniencies which attend the labor of making a new home[in margin: I do not know how soon I may escape from Yosemite. I am under a spell in this place.]
Location
[Yosemite]
Date Original
[1870 May]
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 25.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir02_0291-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0291
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
