Creator
Henry S. Butler
Recipient
[Mrs. Butler]
Transcription
Madison Apr 25' 70
Dear Mother. I was very glad to receive your letter dated the 21st and to hear that you were better. We are all very well, and are getting on better than you could expect. Anna is a good girl and in fact "the goose ha[illegible] high" generally. I had Frank Hoyt here last Fri. night, and Sat. we walked around Fourth Lake, or 25 miles. We started at 5 1/2 A.M. and reach- ed the Branch at 8. which is 7 miles. The Branch is a little village having 1 Store 1 meat market 2 blksmith shops, and 3 Saloons. There is also a mill, but it is not going. This mill has a brick chimney larger than any in Madison, and is, I think, over 100 feet high. It is owned by a man in New York. There are over 100 children in the public school there. Well, Dear Mother, we walked on until we reached home at 3 1/2 PM
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so fresh that we could have your on many miles more. Please ask Mrs Taylor about Devil's Lake, as Frank and I would like to go there this vaca- tion. Tell Agnes that "Rake" comes every day to see her. - Our cistern has given out. it must leak. I think I will have the mason look at it. Sam is coming to- night to help me bring water from Gen Lourd's for the washing tomorrow. A letter came for father, from R N Rice. Concord Mass. - a few days ago. I would write more. but must go to the story of the man who says [um pins Aemeas?]. whom I left filling himself at the table of Queen Dido.
Yours truly from your Son Henry S. Butler.
Location
Madison, Wisc.
Date Original
1870 Apr 25
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 12.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Butler, Henry S., "Letter from Henry S. Butler to [Mrs. Butler], 1870 Apr 25." (1870). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1335.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1335
Resource Identifier
muir02_0255-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0255
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
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
