Creator
Katharine Hooker
Recipient
John Muir
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Transcription
[2]I am working slowly through the dismantling of this old house, and now it is almost empty, swept, but not garnished.I sit in the room you used to have and am sometimes a little sad that I shall probably never inhabit again The garden looks very beautiful.[3]But a sweet lovely woman is going to live in it. that Mrs. Jones (the Nevada senator's wife) whose bonnet you admired because it was a little bed of flowers which seemed to sprout out of the whole surface.Marian is still in New York, Ellie is here with me. I shall stay here till the end of
Location
Los Angeles
Date Original
[1912 ?] Sep 26
Source
Original letter dimensions: 18 x 23 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir20_1345-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 20, Image 1345
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
