Creator

John Muir

Recipient

[Helen & Wanda Muir]

Preview

image preview

Transcription

Remember me to the family & tell Mr Stevenson to let me know when the chimney is likely to be finished that I may be there to see. The time it is taking makes me think of the Egyptian Pyramids. The foundation of it [illegible] fair to be mossy with age before the top becomes smoky.Tell me how Miss Roberts is getting on & give her my kind regardsI met your High School teacher in S. F. the other day Helen. He inquired kindly about your health & wished to be remembered. Mr Cooney or Mooney How are the trains getting through, the Salton sea seems bound for the sky & is causing the S. P. no end of trouble.Mr. Johnson wrote me the other day asking for an article on the Petrified Forests- I must try to write this It will be a grand [advertisement?]. Heaven bless you darlings - Your loving father J.M.

Location

[Martinez, Calif.]

Date Original

1906-01-17 00:00

Source

Original letter dimensions unknown.

Resource Identifier

muir16_0049-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 16, Image 0049

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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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

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

Share

COinS