Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
David [Gilrye Muir]
Transcription
00434
Cedar Keys Florida [1867] Dec 13 - ['67?] [Sick Dec 13?]
Dear bro [David?] I am still a prisoner of sick[illegible]. I have had [pain more or less ever?] since the first attack I had a [illegible] three days ago, have [confined to bed ever?] since I have not been [illegible] [illegible] to come home any thime since I was sick. I am troubled with drenching night sweats which are very weakening In my f[illegible] I am often [illegible]ible but I hope that my [illegible] [illegible] will bear it all Hopes of enjoying the glorious mountains & flower fields of S. America
does much to sustain me I know that I would soon recover if I was at home. I feel more like getting well now than I have for a long time, say to mother & the girls that I am getting better, don't till them any more, Your letter of the 20th [Nov?] took twenty days to come As soon as that 75 dollars reaches me I will take the steamer for New Orleans & if the doctors there tell me to go home I suppose I will have to submit I suppose those feaus are the price of my walk & I am willing to pay it, I hope you are all well. Has Dan returned to Mich, Did you receive my plants My money is nearly all spent. I hope to get that package per Ex [illegible]
Goodbye David My love to all
Location
Cedar Keys, Fla.
Circa Date
[1867] Dec 13
Source
Original letter dimensions: 13.0 x 19.5 cm
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to David Gilrye Muir, 1867 Dec 13" (1867). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1262.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1262
Resource Identifier
muir01_1156-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 01, Image 1156
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific 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
3 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
