Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Sarah Muir Galloway]
Transcription
[Sept, 1860]
If you should come to Madison at any time I will expect a kawl you shall I assure be entering welcome Im beginning to weary sorely to see you all again Id willingly bid goodbye for an hour or more to Madisons pretty icy mountains A lady has an extra ordinary amount of long faced sober scheming and thought to get butter and bread for their bodys The whole affair will soon be wound up May we [show?] ourselves faithful servants whatever be our job that when the trial days are past we get the eternal reward through the merit of our Savior Jesus Christ How apt we are to forget him amid this exciting life game May God bless you all, Goodbye Write often Sarah Whither I write [or?] no these letters from home are like pieces of ice that I find among the hot sand Please give Maggie a read of this letter, with this bit it will do as well as a new one
Ill have to get my content now since I began this [bachel?] affair I dont feel so well but I think if other things run smoothly I would do finely The three university buildings are in the middle of a beautiful park of maybe a hundred acres the trees are close and beautiful some place at others smoothe and velvety Ask David Muir when you see him next if he dont think it [deleted would be] a place fitted by nature for breaking steers, the lake too would be so fine for stock I wonder who sent me the hook and eye box full of moss There is a card for Joanna Has W Reid given you the picture I sent you I wrote your name on it but did not tell him to give it to you It is the second drawing of the whole Mitchell's folk are well David M I hope you will write me a long letter soon Tell me all your troubles John Muir
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Location
[Madison, Wisc.]
Circa Date
[1860 Sep]
Source
Original letter dimensions: 17.5 x 20.5 cm
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Sarah Muir Galloway, 1860 Sep" (1860). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1043.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1043
Resource Identifier
muir01_0065-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 01, Image 0065
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
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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, click here to view the Holt-Atherton Special Collections policies.
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.
Copyright Holder
Muir-Hanna Trust
Copyright Date
1984
Pages
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
