Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Dav[id Gilrye Muir]
Transcription
[1]
Saturday afternoon June 9th /66
Dear Dany I have just read your Dutch difficulties and am as pleased at the thought of seeing you so soon as you are [illegible]turbed by the prospect of leaving Buff
As for employment here You may come along and begin work in our shop in five minutes afer you step from the cars at $10 or 12 per week and you may remain here winter & summer untill you are gray.
In a month or two you will likely be able to get $15 a week I have been working by the piece at plough handles, but have now got a steady job of running the principal circular saw in the shop at $18 per week
If you arrive upon the night train stop over night at the California House it is but a few steps from the depot - if upon the day train come direct to the Hub & spoke factory and ask for John Muir. our factory is about two minutes walk from the depot directly south
Aff' your brother John
[2]
Osgood & Smith called me aside one day and told me that they wished me to stay with them and gave me the privilege of changing the machinery wherever I could improve it. And I am sure that they will be pleased to get another steady [Setchman?] I would have no difficulty in finding a job for half a dozen like you
I send you tonight $25 I would send more but I have lent a sick man $50 and another $10 a few days ago but I can send you ten dollars a week as long as you like if you need it. ------------------
The man who used to be foreman in our shop is now partner in a hub & spoke factory in Cleveland Ohio. Now Cleveland is a health- ier and prettier town than this and you might if you like call there and tell Mr Rothrock that I advised you to call there and seek a job because that I was afraid you might have fever and ague in Indianapolis but if you do not feel inclined to go there or if when you do go you find that matters are not very favorable come here at once
Location
[Indianapolis, Ind.]
Date Original
1866 Jun 9
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to David Gilrye Muir, 1866 Jun 9" (1866). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1196.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1196
Resource Identifier
muir01_0844-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 01, Image 0844
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
The Huntington 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
