Creator
Sarah [Muir Galloway]
Recipient
Emma [Muir]
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Transcription
2night after supper they sometimes have lectures or talks. The girls wrote fine descriptive letters home, they have never been there before and are enjoying it exceedingly. Their father says they take to mountaineering as naturally as ducks to water. Maggie and I will never be able to take such a trip, we cannot climb and we could not endure the thumping and bumping of the sixty miles stage riding in getting to the Valley, then the heat in goinig across the San Joaquin plains is intense, Louie could not undertake that either. David and Ette are very busy people, David rents a lot of Orchard and vineyard land from John and with his own piece he requires a lot of help, mostly Japs, the white men
Location
Martinez, Calif.
Date Original
1901 Jul 29
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Resource Identifier
muir11_0801-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 11, Image 0801
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
The Huntington Library, Muir Family Papers, HM 57349-57497. 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
