Creator

John Muir

Recipient

Helen [Muir]

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52[2]O Yes we do said they for they are beautiful Angoras sweet white Angora kitties, & we are going to take them to New York. I said well dont let the donkey run away "O no he wont run away we have to whip him sometimes to make him just walk. Just at this moment the girls & the new cats have come all the them beauties very expressive faces & silky hair How you would enjoy the fun of introducing your Maggie & Wanda to them.Tell Mamma Ive enjoyed Mr & Mrs Gilder ever so much. On the way here on the car I was introduced to Joseph Choate the great lawyer & on Sunday Mr Gilder & I drove over to his fine residence at Stockbridge to dinner & I had a good long talk with him about forests as well as glaciers etc. Today we all go back to New York. This evening I dine with Johnson & tomorrow I go up the Hudson to the Osburns. There probably I dine with Tesla (I saw him in his workshop) then I suppose Ill have to go to Florida & then gladly home00206

Location

Four Brook Farm, Tyringham, Berkshire Hills [N.Y.]

Date Original

1898-11-01T00:00:00

Source

Original letter dimensions: 28 x 21.5 cm.

Resource Identifier

muir10_0421-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 10, Image 0421

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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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

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.

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

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