Creator
Mary [Muir Hand]
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
[1]
Kearney, Nebr..
March 6/92
Dear brother John:
How unsociable we are – “uncorresponding” perhaps we might say. This condition of things is hardly necessary seems to me – and neither enjoyable nor profitable. In the first months after coming to Nebraska I wrote two letters to you – but had no answer from them. Your time is much taken up I know, and is so much more valuable than mine – that I have but little claim to any of it – but I should very much enjoy hearing from you again. My health is now very good. I am about as strong and well as when a girl – but am doing all of my work – and have little time for anything outside of what home-duty
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[2]
brings me – little time for reading or study and little time for pictures – but am hoping such will not be the case very long – and that some day I may do something with my brush that will be for you – and that will please you. I was sick much of the time after going to northern Wisconsin and had little ambition or strength for work of any kind – but now am so well my fingers tingle for time to handle brushes – Annie writes me of the grand present you sent mother. I shall hope to get sight of it sometime – or of one as fine so it s. Maggie mentions that you and some of your family have had “La Grippe” I trust that you are quite recovered
[3]
Fortunately we have all escaped that “fashionable disease” for which we are very thankful. There has been a great deal of it here. How does Maggie seem to enjoy California – and do you think she improves in health? Give my love to sister Louie – and your children also. I am only a little acquainted with them – through what others write and say of them but wish it were otherwise – should like to have personal acquaintance with them.
With much love,
Sister Mary.
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Location
Kearney, Neb
Date Original
1892 Mar 6
Source
Original letter dimensions: 22 x 21 cm.
Recommended Citation
Hand, Mary Muir, "Letter from Mary [Muir Hand] to John Muir, 1892 Mar 6." (1892). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 147.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/147
Resource Identifier
muir07_0468-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 07, Image 0468
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
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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
