Creator
John E. Varnel
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
Madison Wis Oct 18th
Mr John Muir Esq Prairie Du Chine Dr sir I received your favor last evening and was glad to hear you were well and had found good friends this morning finds us all well and in good Spirets and I hope this may find you the same our friend Kerby is still with us waiting for a letter he appears to be content and says he [wont?] go till he does get a letter on account [of?] money Moariah is still with us but will leave us tuesday send her best respets to Mr Muir Now friend Muir about our thermometer I think I have found a man that will take hold of it with me if he can see a pattern but he is a careful kind of a man and wants to see through the
whole thing before he will say he will take hold and go in with me and if you can find time I wish you would take the matter in hand and get up one on a small scale such a model as you would wish to have pattented and forward to me by express I am in no great hurry but any time you can conveniently find time say by odd spells you might get up one and I think I can manage to go into the trade. we shall always be happy to hear from you and will always answer prompt pleas tell us what you are doing and what kind of a man [illegible] Weird has proved to be and all par[illegible] Culver says he would like to receive a letter from you at any time you may see fit to write hoping you may prosper and that the good Lord may bless you in all your undertakings I will subscribe myself Yours Very Respectivly John H.Varnel
N. B. there has no letters came into this office for you as yet have you got up any new designs of anything as yet if so tell me in your next J H V
Madison, Wis., Oct. 13th, 1860. Mr. John Muir, Esq., Prairie DuChien, Dear Sir:
I received your favor last evening and was glad to hear you were well and had found good friends. This morning finds us all well and in good spirits, and I hope this may find you the same. Our friend Kerby is still with us, waiting for a letter. He appears to be content and says he can't go till he does get a letter, on account of money. Maria is still with us, but will leave us Tuesday. [She] sends her best respects to Mr. Muir.
Now, friend Muir, about our thermometer, I think I have found a man that will take hold of it with me if he can see a pattern, but he is a careful kind of a man and wants to see through the whole thing before he will say he will take hold and go in with me, and if you can find time, I wish you would take the matter in hand and get up one on a small scale-such a model as you would wish to have patented, and forward to me by express. I am in no great hurry, but any time you can conveniently find time, say by odd spells, you might get up one, and I think I can manage to go into the trade.
We shall always be happy to hear from you, and will always answer promptly. Please tell us what you are doing and what kind of man Mr. Wirad has proved to be and all parties. Culver says he would like to receive a letter from you at any time you may see fit to write. Hoping you may prosper, and that the good Lord may bless you in all your undertakings, I will subscribe myself, Yours very respectfully,
John H. Varnel
Location
Madison, Wisc.
Date Original
1860 Oct 13
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 25.0 cm
Recommended Citation
Varnel, John E., "Letter from John E. Varnel to John Muir, 1860 Oct 13" (1860). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1044.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1044
Resource Identifier
muir01_0069-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 01, Image 0069
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
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Owning Institution
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Pages
3 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
