Creator
Anne [Annie L.] Muir
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
March 2nd Dear Brother John: are you quite well we are all pretty well here. I am attending the high school I like it very well Mary and myself stay up stairs most of the time where Miss Brigs teaches I like her firstrate we recite all of our lessons to Miss Brigs with the exception of our grammer lesson we go down to Mr Magoffin to recite that. the Saturday before last was George Washingtons birthday and there was a celebration among the schools we all gathered at the school house as usual in the morning at about 9 oclock and Mr Carswell lent us eighteen little flags well after all
was reads we all went out and marched down to [Vandercooks?] hall and then we sang the red white and blue then Mr Magoffin read part of George Washingtons farewell adress and there was two fiddlers there so we sang the Star Spangled banner and dixy and one or two more and they fiddled to them well well enough of that now John Muir what will I do to you if you don't come home when your school is out John you promised to write soon you must remember from your affectionate Sister Anne Muir
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Location
[Portage, Wisc]
Circa Date
[1862] Mar 2
Source
Original letter dimensions: 19.0 x 11.5 cm
Recommended Citation
Muir, Anne L., "Letter from Anne Annie L. Muir to John Muir, 1862 Mar 2" (1862). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1098.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1098
Resource Identifier
muir01_0347-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 01, Image 0347
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
