Creator
D[avid] G. Muir
Recipient
John Muir
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[2]money of any [illegible] except what she earns. She boards Mother Annie Joanna & her three children & a young lady who attends school & receive sufficient therefore to to get a living & her clothes also Grace’s who helps her do housework Joanna did want to find other quarters but I persuaded her to try and live with Sarah for the sake of helping her They all live in my house for which I charge her no rent & keep telling her not to consider it a debt I guess Annies money is all used she makes considerable money by selling fish scale jewelry to the ladies. [Manufactured? by a Miss Moore her health is very fair & Mother helps her when she is in need. Joanna is all right Walter Sends her plenty of money so she pays her way in no stinted manner. Walter & his Bank has passed the [crises?] & is making money, with a bright prospect.[in margin: 01506][3][letterhead][in margin: [2nd?]] Portage, Wis. ……………………………….189…..as for John Reid & Maggie you know all about them. You wrote me to send [them?] some money last year but we were very hard pushed ourselves all of last year. the hardest I ever was. Ever since Jno Reid left Portage I have paid his life insurance for Maggie’s sake in case anything might happen to him, which with some other things I paid for him amounts to about $1000.00 beside this when he wrote me in desperation in Dec 1889 I [borrowed?] $500.00 & sent it to him. I never could decide whether to charge this to you or not because you wrote me not to send money for the land but for Maggies necessities
Location
Portage, Wis
Date Original
1891 Mar 4
Source
Original letter dimensions: 23 x 14.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir07_0109-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 07, Image 0109
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 2
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
