Creator
Sarah [Muir Galloway]
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
[1]
[in margin: David has got his barn built & his hay into it he is very pleased about it I must say good bye again let me hear from you [sorry?] Sarah]
Mound Hill August 21st /68
My Dear Brother John
Here is a letter that has been all the way to San Francisco and back again. I presume there is something in it new to you so off it goes again. Mother was here a few days ago and showed me the letter you sent her last. And the only one received from you (by any of us) since last March. Oh how anxiously we have all looked for a California letter in the months past your health being poor and the long silence we knew not what might have happened. And I assure you there has been many a tear shed and many a prayer offered for you. that you might be kept in all your ways and be brought home again. If you had only written one letter saying I have arrived safely and am well how much anxiety you might have saved us all. but enough of this. we have heard from you and are glad
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[2]
Mr Wisely wondered a good deal at your saying that there was a hundred flowers in Cal - to one here. he thought there was more here than there. I presume the difference lies in his having travel -ed to show his pictures while you are looking for flowers. I wish I had been with you while you were exploring the Yo Semite valley. it must have been great I saw Mr Wesely's fine exhibition of California & other scenery. his views of this valley were beautiful but of course nothing to the reality. You will have heard by this time of Mr Watsons death his family must miss him very much but Mrs Watson seems to bear up well. Anna was down last week helping her to sew. the three girls are all going to hop picking our Anna is going to Pick too. in the yard just by us. she expects to do great things. Do write us a few lines soon the children had each a little piece in the returned letter bu
[in margin: I will not send it as it may be to heavy route [their?] half dozen words when you write to me and it will please them.]
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Location
Mound Hill, [Wisc]
Date Original
1868 Aug 21
Source
Original letter dimensions: 19.5 x 13.0 cm
Recommended Citation
Galloway, Sarah Muir, "Letter from Sarah Muir Galloway to John Muir, 1868 Aug 21" (1868). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1280.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1280
Resource Identifier
muir01_1242-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 01, Image 1242
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
Copyright status unknown
Copyright Statement
Some letters written to John Muir may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
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.
Pages
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
