Creator
John Muir
Recipient
David [Gilrye Muir]
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Transcription
[2]and so always is the happiness of life mixed with suffereing. And well may we be led to look [illegible] ahead to the better land where no pain or separation is, little though we know about it. I mean to see you all some time this happy new Year. Seeing you after as long a journey in earths wiolent wilderness will make indeed new to me. I could not come now without leaving tyhe ranch to go to wreck a score of workmen without a head & no head to be found though I have looked long for a forman.Next [mark on page] spring after the [crops?] are [illegible] & [illegible][8]etc & the cherry crop sold. I mean to pay off all but half dozen or so & leave things to take their course for a month or two. Cant you send me some good steady feallows to learn this fruit business & take some of the personal supervision off my shoulders such a person could be sure of a job as long as he likedI want you to write oftener this year than heretofore however briefly. Five minutes a month at least You might devote to me: [eraser mark]Give Katie my kindest regards & buy some books or anything they may like for the children & charge to my acct, Ever lovingly Your brother John Muir
Location
Martinez, [Calif]
Date Original
1884 Dec 30
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 25 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir05_0166-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 05, Image 0166
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 2
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
