Creator
Maggie [Margaret Muir Reid]
Recipient
John Muir
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[2]feared loosing, was almost gone. the time was up and J. had writen a letter & went to mail it, deeding it to a man for just what was to pay on it but just then he recd a letter from Brother David with a five hundred dollar check & later Willis Hand sent one hundred dollars which cleared the payment, & payed the taxes on the whole & a little more, but in the fall he will again be at the mercy of the R.R. co & fears he will have to tose it all as a payment of one thousand dollars & arrears, too perhaps, will have to be made on the two sections (about three thousand will clear the [illegible]) & the third section being school land, is to be payed by one hundred dollars a year payments for about sixteen years. J. says he would be willing to let it all go with his three thousand dol. worth of impro-[3]-vements also about fifteen hundred dollars which he personally has payed on it, if he could only get enough to pay Sarah out of it, & could get anything to do to make something to live on & pay debts but there is no prospect of making a living, debts out of the question. God only knows what we are to do. John is perfectly discouraged & held down with seemingly incumountable difficulties old & new & does not know what to do or where to turn. after he got rid of the horses (which was sold at a big loss) J. was partly promised help to buy some sheep to put on the place which seemed to him & others to be the best investment, but it was so late when he got through with the horses, he was put off for it till another fall & no certainty of it then.01400[6]with you I dreamed you were here the other night. I hope you are not writing too hard. I hear you are going to write for The Century again. We have not heard that Mary & family have moved to Kearney yet. we anxiously hope they will make us a visit on their way. we are better now but have all had this La Grippe or influenza except May. John & John had it light. it griped my hard for two weeks but I am much better but so nervous. Give my move to Louie & the children, what a comfort & pleasure the little girls must be to you all now, also remember me to Dr. & Mrs Strentzel. pardon me John if I have done wrong in writing this doleful letter, but your kindly sympathy is preciousAs EverMaggie01400
Location
Crete, Neb
Date Original
1890 Feb 1
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 25 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir06_0351-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 06, Image 0351
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 3
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
