Creator
Maggie [Margaret Muir Reid]
Recipient
John Muir
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[4]with no means & almost no crops for so long though the Land is good if we only had the moisture. J. has been trying hard to sell it this last summer & Fall for money or more saleable property & had a prospect of selling to a man in Iowa who had a lot of Boys & wanted a big piece of land all together for a stock farm but at the time he was to come & look it over sickness in his family prevented him J has put it into the hands of a Land Agent promising him $500 if he can make a sale but at present for land there is almost no sale only there is more hope of ours so much of it being together, well being helpless in the meantime he J. wrote to the Land Co. stating his case & asking what they would do with him if he failed to raise
Location
Collyer, Kansas
Date Original
1890 Dec 24
Source
Original letter dimensions: 39 x 13 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir06_0781-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 06, Image 0781
Copyright Status
Copyright status unknown
Copyright Statement
Some letters written to John Muir may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
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 5
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
