Creator
Mother [Ann Gilrye Muir]
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
[photography error, document illegible]
he looks very thin and pale - your father has bought a house and lot he is getting a small barn put up and getting a well dug. They call it three quarter of a mile from miles corner it is beyond the railroad station - we will not move for a month or so as it is occupied - there has been a great fire at the station a long row of houses have been burned and the elevator containing thousands of bushels of wheat was burned to the ground - your father had about five hundred bushels burned - part of it being winter wheat. I am glad Dan and the girls has had such a good opportunity of attending school here I hope you will write soon - from your affectionate Mother ________ _______
Location
Portage [Wisc]
Date Original
1862 Mar 1
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.0 x 12.5 cm
Recommended Citation
Muir, Ann Gilrye, "Letter from Ann Gilrye Muir to John Muir, 1862 Mar 1" (1862). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1096.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1096
Resource Identifier
muir01_0339-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 01, Image 0339
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
Some letters written to John Muir may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
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
