Creator
Jessie Reid
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
Portage City Wis July 31 1872
My dear uncle John I think you are very kind for allowing us to have a book each mine is a very nice story it is a bout to girls living in a cave four years I got it as a Chrismas present and i got a [xxx deleted] beautiful pin [illegible] [illegible] in my sunday school teacher gave it to me her name was Miss Beard and Joanna is our sunday school teacher know i like her very much here is a flower caled a lilly i do not know what kind of a lilly it is perhaps you can tell what the name is and here is a wild honey succle and here is an other little flower called larkspur Annie will be 11 years old the nineteenth of novem ber and i will be 10 the 29 of January and Harry will be 2 years old the seckand of next month We have still our little black
horse named Billie and he will eat sugar or any thing he eats candy too and Harry is so fond of him that he will hardely keep a way from him he can drive him already it is now vacation and has Bin for nearly two months and annie had been out most all the time pleas excuse my Blots [thin thin?] i will try to do better the next time Writ to me soon your affection neice
Jessie S Reid
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Portage City, Wis.,
July 31, 1872.
My dear Uncle John:
I think you are very kind for allowing us to have a book each. Mine is a very nice story. It is about two girls living in a cave four years. I got it as a Christmas present, and I got a beautiful pin cushion. My Sunday school teacher gave it to me. Her name was Miss Beard, and Joanna is our Sunday school teacher now. I like her very much. Here is a flower called a lily. I do not know what kind of a lily it is - perhaps you can tell what the name is: and here is a wild honeysuckle and here is one other little flower called larkspur.
Annie will be 11 years old the nineteenth of November, and I will be 10 the 29th of January, and Harry will be 2 years old the second of next month. We have still our little black horse named Billie, and he will eat sugar or anything; he eats candy too, and Harry is so fond of him that he will hardly keep away from him. He can drive him already. It is now vacation and has been for nearly two months, and Annie has been out most all the time. Please excuse my blots. I will try to do better the next time. Write to me soon.
Your affectionate niece,
Jessie Reid
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Location
Portage City, Wis
Date Original
1872 Jul 31
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 12.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Reid, Jessie, "Letter from Jessie Reid to John Muir, 1872 Jul 31." (1872). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1465.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1465
Resource Identifier
muir02_0859-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0859
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
3 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
