Creator
Sarah [Muir Galloway]
Recipient
John Muir & Louie [Strentzel Muir]
Transcription
[4]
health here. Mother has not been feeling quite so well for a while. but is better again. she has been confined to the house more than usual on account of so much snow and cold weather, and that does not agree with her. Joanna and the children are well. [Bernice?] visits us very often, she runs back, and forth. [alone?] now. With kindest good wishes for you all. I am
Lovingly
Sarah.
Along with this letter, I send a little box for Wanda and Helen.
[1]
Portage, Wis.
Dec. 13th/93
Dear Brother and Sister,
The glad Christmas time is coming near, and again I send you Christmas greetings, and pray that our heavenly father may send you his best gifts through the coming year, with plenty of good cheer to enjoy them to the utmost. I feel that one of my
[2]
very great blessings, is the having so many good brothers and sisters with whom I may exchange the glad, good wishes of the season, and all season for that matter. Mother received a letter to-day, from you John, and she tells me that you are all well except grandma. I am very sorry to know that she is ill. and hope that she may soon recover Tell her I always hold her in loving remembrance. I can never forget her great kindness to Maggie and I.
[3]
This year, I hope there will be no grippe to hinder you and the children from enjoying the holidays. The disease is very prevalent here. I do not think I ever knew a time, when there was more sickness, and death, in Portage than now. The winter thus far has been quite severe, with a great deal of snow-fall. there is rain, and thaw to-day, but we are told there is a cold wave at hand, with you, I suppose there is sunshine and roses. We are all in our usual
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Location
Portage, Wis
Date Original
1893 Dec 15
Source
Original letter dimensions: 17 x 22.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Galloway, Sarah Muir, "Letter from Sarah [Muir Galloway] to John Muir & Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1893 Dec 15." (1893). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1017.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1017
Resource Identifier
muir07_1423-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 07, Image 1423
Collection Identifier
Online finding aid for the microform version of the John Muir Correspondence http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0w1031nc
Copyright Status
Copyright status unknown
Copyright Statement
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Owning Institution
Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Pages
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
