Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Mother [Ann Gilrye Muir]
Transcription
[in margin: Injured eye]
68
[1]
[1867] Ind. Saturday Mar 9th
Dear Mother While connecting a machine belt I accidentally thrust the point of a file into my right eye last Tuesday and there is the damage I am completely prostrated and the eye is lost I have been confined to bed since the accident and for the first two or three days could not eat or drink a mouthful but I am a little better today and hope to be at work again in a month or two I am condemmed by the doctor to dark room for
[2]
some weeks I am surprised that from apparently so small a shock my whole system should be so com- pletely stunned I am now free from pain and kind friends come and read for me I am supplied with abundance of of good books and all that can con[illegible] to my speed recovery and present comfort I am with a very sensible and kind family and could not be better cared for In a few weeks I will be ready to look the world and [illegible] [illegible] in the face Well as [illegible] and I mean to make this long rest profitable as possible
[3]
and now mother I would just say to you and to father & all my friends I [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] in full You know the worst so be patient do not fret I will write soon again
My love to all John Muir
I have written at random and in the dark but hope you will be able to read my meaning
Location
Ind[ianapollis, Ind.]
Circa Date
[1867] Mar 9
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Ann Gilrye Muir, 1867 Mar 9" (1867). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1218.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1218
Resource Identifier
muir01_0938-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 01, Image 0938
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
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
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
