Creator
Joanna [Muir]
Recipient
Daniel [H. Muir]
Transcription
[1]
Hickory Farm Dec 25th [1866]
Dear brother Daniel
I wish you a merry christmas and a happy new year when it comes; we expected [illegible] and [illegible]arah and her folks today but it is so rainy that I am afraid that they will not come which seems very strange for christ- mas for it is always very [illegible] and it is generally good [illebible] but if it rains much more the snow will be all gone but perhaps we are having our January than a little before the time. I received your letter of the 17th of Nov and was very glad that you had become so strong and
[2]
well so very fast and that you are no longer puny and pale. I know it was very naughty not to have wrote sooner but I have been going to school for a few weeks and I suppose though I had not time we have got a very good teacher after all not an Owen either so I intend to go just as steady as I can and learn as much as possible, and be as brave as possible about break- ing the [illegible] for I have got a pair of overshoes and am all rigged out for a regular glorious time [illegible] this winter for I am going to be a real good girl and be contented to go to school here instead of Portage or any where else for we have got a little more used to staying
[3]
up here by ourselves then we were when you went away first. We have commenced going to the [illegible] [illegible] every two weeks and would you believe it father is going to get a grand stove pipe hat from New York, dont you think you had better come home and see how he looks with it I suppose it will have the [illegible] effect of making him look quite preacherly. The apples have not lasted as long as you pro[illegible]- cied for father has just had to bring up two barrels from Portage I hope you will soon write and let us know how you get along now
From your affectionate sister Joanna
Location
Hickory Farm [Wisc.]
Circa Date
[1866] Dec 25
Recommended Citation
Muir, Joanna, "Letter from Joanna Muir to Daniel H. Muir, 1866 Dec 25" (1866). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1209.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1209
Resource Identifier
muir01_0904-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 01, Image 0904
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
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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.
Pages
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
