Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Daniel [H. Muir]
Transcription
Indpls Last evening of [illegible]
Dear brother Daniel
I thank you for the ferns and for Ponted[illegible] cordata- that plant with the [illegible] of blue flowers, I am glad you sent it because although I had tried to analyze it a great many times long ago I was per- voked to "try again." and as my brains seem to grow I made its acquaintance without much trouble, I have a specimen of it in Wis & one here which I suppose you remember we found at the end of Lake Ontario, & when I was trying to analyze it you lay down in the hot sand & hot sun in profound sleep
I send you tonight $25 per Am' Ex'. I am sorry Dan that I could not send it sooner, but what with giving & lending I was poor, when you wrote I am getting along pretty well, I have a good room and a tip bed and have framed my pictures - I am on pretty good terms with Osgood & Smith I spent Christmas in putting up a lime shaft in the new brick shop. Prof Butler paid me a visit last Saturday and I spent a very happy evening with him etc Merril's I sent a book to Henry
I hope Dany with all my heart that this will be a happy year with you and be full of pros- parity & satisfaction in the pursuit of your plans We do not know what of trouble [illegible] of joy is to be given us, but surely it is the part of a wise man to nerve himself for either. May our beneficent heavenly Father bless you dear brother and make this New Year & all your other years abound in all that is manly & good
Most cordially John
Location
Ind[ianapolis, Ind.]
Circa Date
1866 [Dec 31]
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Daniel H. Muir, 1866 Dec 31" (1866). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1210.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1210
Resource Identifier
muir01_0908-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 01, Image 0908
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
