Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[J. E.] Calkins
Preview
Transcription
This will leave our time less broken by business affairs tho these will not [awanting?]This must be a dismal letter to you both but most so to me. Only once before can I recall so deadly crushing a sickness.I am faithfully yoursJohn MuirMost everybody in our Valley has the Grippe 7 cases in Wanda's family at the Adobe, including Wanda herself & baby boy & husband & if all got as lean as me it would become like the Valley of dry bonesMartinez, Cal. Feb. 26, 1908Dear Mr Calkins:I'm very glad to get your good news of Mrs Calkins good health & your ableness for work. & am sorry I can't send something in accord with your h[earty?] encouraging letter I have been & am very sick, as unable for literary work as a dead man, & with no hope in sight of getting back to workable health for months. Some time in the dim future we may yet be able to something worth whil together. I hope to get rid of Helen's Ranch09203
Location
Martinez, Calif.
Date Original
1908 Feb 26
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20 x 25 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir17_0221-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 17, Image 0221
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
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 1
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
