Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[David Gilrye Muir]
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[2]
will erect in this your first enterprise a [donns] worthy the name; and if, as you seemed to [intimate] might be the case, you build a whole town. I hope you will be very [ferrteekeler] - begin well-remember the nation to whom you belong, and the age in which you live - its streets must be troddin just by "black gentoos & pagan Turks" but by the white & fexin loving people of the sons of Japheth, and its squares and avenues must be shone upon by the [sun] of the nineteenth century. May your town be spared from the attacks of cholera and all the dire epidemics of the day, and be noted more for its schools & churches than for arsenals, castles, & cannon.
P S "I think" you might invent a better mode of watering the streets in dusty days than these barrels mounted on drays A! Dan! Dan!.-
[3]
I am glad I am that you have found a shop where so many handles are made, it will be just the place for you, and I shall be very much interested in the working of the lathes, Tell me as soon as you can what is considered a days work in different kinds of handles, but be careful not to say much about my invention. I think of attending to that after finishing this scythe. John [Keens?] is going to move to the south end of the town in about a week. I am sorry to say that the sawyer who took your place sawed his hand dreadfully the second day after he commenced. his accident happened about as your did - his hand before it was dressed seemed to be torn in pieces, the bone of one finger joint was found by the
Location
Ind[ianapolis, Ind.]
Date Original
1866 Aug 12
Resource Identifier
muir01_0866-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 01, Image 0866
Copyright Status
Copyrighted
Copyright Statement
The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission to publish or exhibit them, see http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Fees-and-Forms-.html
Owning Institution
The Huntington Library. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Copyright Holder
Muir-Hanna Trust
Copyright Date
1984
Page Number
Page 2
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
