Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
Helen [Muir]
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02115[in margin: Go over & comfort Maggie & tell Mamma to write to poor Sarah]gone to Alaska & would never more have seen my mother. Then if I had not compelled Mary to come to Portage she would not have seen her either & Sarah & Anne would not have had her help. & had I not been in Portage probably Dan would not have come either, so all that was for the best. Then I went to New York & up the Hudson a hundred miles to see John Bourroughs & Prof Osborne to escape being sun struck & choked in the horrid weather of the streets. & then refreshed I got back to New York & started for Boston & Cambridge & got through the Harvard business all right & caught a fast train & got back to Portage in time for the funeral, then I stopped three or four days to settle all the business & write to Scotland, & comfort Sarah & Annie & Mary then I ran down a half day to Madison. Then I went to Milwaukee & stayed a night with Wm Trout with whom I used to live in a famous hollow in the Canada woods 30 years ago. Next day I went to Indianapolis & saw everybody there & stopped with them one night. Then came here last night & stopped with Sellers. I am now in his office waiting the arrival of the forestry commission with whom I expect to start work tonight at half past ten o'clock. It is now about noon. I feel that this is the end of the strange lot of events I have been talking about for when I reach the Rocky Mountains Ill feel at home. I saw a wonderful lot of squirrels at Osborns, & Mrs Osborn wants you & Wanda & Mamma to visit her & stay a long time Good bye darling & give my love to Wanda & Mamma & Grandma & Maggie
Location
Chicago [Illinois]
Date Original
1896-07-03T00:00:00
Source
Original letter dimensions: 28 x 21.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir09_0278-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 09, Image 0278
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 3
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
