Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Mary [Muir]
Transcription
than thirty years an unmarried lady of a great many good qualities. Sixth Harriet Trout a very happy & sportive fish who employs herself in giggling & making giggle for hours at a time is about twenty years of age, 5 1/2 feet long & will perhaps some- time join affinity to the Jay who whistles and coos and gesticulates so funnily to her We all live happily to- gether. Occasionally an extra Trout comes up- stream or a brother jay slights at our door but they are not of our family
I must now bid goodbye. Write soon Yours, John
[1864] Meaford Oct 23
Dear Sis Mary
I am well & hope that this er letter will find you ditto as much as possible Dany & I have a pleasant home and do not work hard or long hours so of course we are growing fatter and fatter and perhaps we will soon be as big as Gog & Magog.
CALIFORNIA ASSOCITATED SOCIETIES\ FOR THE CONSERVATION OF WILD LIFE W. P. TAYLOR, SECRETARY BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA
Letter from Meaford, Canada Oct 23 [1864]
Our family here consists of first of all Me a most good man and big boy Second Daniel who is also mostly big and three or four trifles funny Third Mr William Trout an unmarried boy of thirty summers who according to a multiplicity of common prognostications is going to elect a lady mistress of Trouts
Hollow some day (Fourth) Charles Jay a bird of twenty five who is said to coo to a Trout He is created like a blue jay with bristly hair and good natured and vocieferous as any parrot This jay & last mentioned Trout are in partner- ship and are the rulers of the two scotch heather Muirs Fifth Mary Trout of perhaps more
Location
Meadford, [Canada]
Circa Date
[1864] Oct 23
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Mary Muir, 1864 Oct 23" (1864). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1164.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1164
Resource Identifier
muir01_0676-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 01, Image 0676
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
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Owning Institution
John Muir National Historic Site. 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
3 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
