Creator
A. Ross Matheson
Recipient
John Muir
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Transcription
[letterhead]Dec 23rd 1901Dear friend Muir,This afternoon while doing my Christmas shopping, I picked up a volume "Our National Parks by John Muir". I read a few pages and was quite convinced it was my friend of Auld Lang Syne. I have read more of it and have been very much pleased It is a very interesting work. I purchased on copy for my youngest son and one for a friend who is largely interested in Western R.R.ds and who has travelled extensively in the parks of the West. The long gap spanning the time since I last heard from you have made some changes in each of us. I have been in this city over 30 years. I am now regarded as one of the old physicians and Surgeons, the majority of these who were here then have passed over ["with?] the great majority I have had a satisfactory degree of success, have had excellent hospital connections and a large practice and the usual honors, such as the presidency of various Medical organizations. I have had my sorrows too my wife was called away to her final rest in 1896 - after a long illness. I have two sons who are my Companions and who are making satisfactory work one as a physician and the other is still a student02904
Location
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Date Original
1901 Dec 23
Source
Original letter dimensions: 27 x 21 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir11_1047-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 11, Image 1047
Copyright Status
Copyright status unknown
Copyright Statement
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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 1
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
