Creator
Sarah [Muir Galloway]
Recipient
[John Muir]
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Transcription
[2]talking over old times and all else. Your autobiography will bring up many remembrances of old times and the people we met in those early days as well as so much that was wonderful to us in the new country. The birds were so different from those we knew in Scotland and the wild flowers so fine and how we wandered about and enjoyed them.Do you remember Robert Christie? he loved the flowers and we planted seeds in our early garden that he brought from Scotland. He went to New York and was engaged[3]in taking care of a gentleman's grounds there. We heard this of him by James Muir. In all the time since we have heard nothing of him until a short time since Miss Foster sent me a paper with a notice of the fiftieth anniversary of his marriage also something of his life. He was still in New York. but nearly all of the old neighbors are dead.I still hear from Miss Saunderson. her last letter was from Virginia she was with her youngest daughter whose home is there. She was well and thinking of visiting her
Location
Pacific Grove, Calif.
Date Original
1912 Dec 7
Source
Original letter dimensions: 16.5 x 26 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir20_1463-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 20, Image 1463
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 2
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
