Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Katharine] Graydon
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Transcription
[Original letter returned to Miss Katharine M. Graydon]Martinez, Sep. 11, 1912.Dear Miss Graydon:I greatly enjoyed your good letter so full of dear lang syne times. I should have enjoyed more than I can tell a week or two with you all. But after wandering over two continents a thousand voices were calling me home. How delightful your college work must be, right at home in your own town - revelling in literature like a bee in honey bloom.No great changes are visible in our little valley - only a new house here and there and weeds in the vineyard that I used to cultivate. The Reids, Colemans, and Sweets are well. So are Wanda and Helen with their five boys. Helen with her two lives in Los Angeles. Brother David in Pacific Grove.I'm in my old library den all alone, looking over a hundred or more old notebooks and manuscript scraps, planning new books. I've not written a word on my foreign travels as yet. May in a year or two. Am now at work on Alaska. A first volume of Autobiography will be published soon - next winter or spring.Give my love to Mina and your mother, brother and sisters, Charley and Merrill Moores and Hendricks.Your affectionate friend,John Muir[Envelope addressed Miss Katharine Graydon, 303 Downey Avenue, Indianapolis, Indiana].05273
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1912 Sep 11
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Resource Identifier
muir20_1301-trans.tif
File Identifier
Reel 20, Image 1301
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley. 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
