Recipient
Wolfe, Linnie Marsh
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when my father sold the farm, moved Mother and us girls to Portage, and then died. I am enclosing for you the carbon copy of my little sketch about John Muir. You may keep it, because I have the original. I think you probably have this already, but it may not easily accessible, and you are very welcome to this.
I was born on the Fountain Lake Farm, but when I was just a baby, a few months old I guess, Father moved to Portage. If you will look at that old yellowed letter I gave you, that John Muir wrote from Canada where I was born, back in 1865, you will see that he says something about my father “going into the wheat business, for which he was well fitted.” Something like that, as I remember.
But evidently Father didn’t like the business, or wanted to get back on a farm again, because I was still just a baby, at least a little tot, when
Location
Portland, Oregon
Date Original
1944-03-23
Page Number
2
Resource Identifier
MSS048 Vb.7
Copyright Status
Copyright status unknown
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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.
Keywords
John Muir, biography, reminiscence, colleagues, contemporaries, archives, special collections, University of the Pacific, California, Holt-Atherton Special Collections, history, naturalist
