Creator
Geo[rge] Hansen
Recipient
John Muir
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GEO. HANSENLANDSCAPE ARCHITECT2705 HEARST AVENUE, BERKELEY, CAL.ADVISORY ARCHITECT TO PARK COMMISSIONS,MUNICIPALITIES AND CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONSJune 28th., 1904.Friend,You do hot know much about this house, and as t know that you dont waste time reading newspapers, I thought you would like to step in our circle just for ten minutes relief in your studies. I, or rather we, send you two letters that arrived from our neighbors who "do" Europe. They were perfect strangers to us till, now seven years since, I laid out their little bit of creek garden (below Keelers),(one man told me never to mention that I had anything to do with their garden because nobody could tell that anything had been done to it). Not till two sad death entered their homelife and till I got of my underpinning did they enter our homelife. (Mr. M. was a retired banker, and the widow is worth, at best, a round one hundred thousand). During two long years this old lady has come to this backdoor of ours not less than once a week, mostly oftener, never once with empty hands, if it be but a sprig of sweetbrier, or sprucelimb (that I had planted) and never once has she spoken to me one word abort my aliment. What else she and her daughter (who came regularly playing piano for us by the hour) have been to us, God keeps track of in his garden where he plants a daisy for every good deed of ours. - And as they are to us, so to everybody, and their company recruits from the highways and byways.I have asked my friends "back hone" to be good to them. You see what Mr. o'Brien does; and their Christmas was in the hones of my best friends in the town where I was born.Please, let us have the letters back, and do not waste words commenting. Just an envelope and stamp, and your postmark "Martinez"; the rest we know.03392
Location
Berkeley, Calif.
Date Original
1904-06-28 00:00
Source
Original letter dimensions: 28 x 21.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir14_0282-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 14, Image 0282
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 1
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
