Creator
John Muir
Recipient
David [Gilrye Muir]
Transcription
[in margin: Martinez 1884 Family Affairs]] 01151
[1]
Martinez, Dec 30, 1884
Dear brother David.
I wish you a good lucky & happy New Year full of hope & all the best that Heaven sends.
Im very sorry to hear from time to time that Katie is not at all well & suffers a great deal How great must be always an affliction that lasts from year to year while friends can only sympathize without bringing relief from the actual pain Anna Muir too is coughing again & I feel very anxious about her, & father too is weighed down with poor health as well as years
[2]
and so always is the happiness of life mixed with suffereing. And well may we be led to look [illegible] ahead to the better land where no pain or separation is, little though we know about it. I mean to see you all some time this happy new Year. Seeing you after as long a journey in earths wiolent wilderness will make indeed new to me. I could not come now without leaving tyhe ranch to go to wreck a score of workmen without a head & no head to be found though I have looked long for a forman.
Next [mark on page] spring after the [crops?] are [illegible] & [illegible]
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etc & the cherry crop sold. I mean to pay off all but half dozen or so & leave things to take their course for a month or two. Cant you send me some good steady feallows to learn this fruit business & take some of the personal supervision off my shoulders such a person could be sure of a job as long as he liked
I want you to write oftener this year than heretofore however briefly. Five minutes a month at least You might devote to me: [eraser mark]
Give Katie my kindest regards & buy some books or anything they may like for the children & charge to my acct, Ever lovingly Your brother John Muir
Location
Martinez, [Calif]
Date Original
1884 Dec 30
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 25 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to David [Gilrye Muir], 1884 Dec 30." (1884). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1581.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1581
Resource Identifier
muir05_0164-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 05, Image 0164
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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, see http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Fees-and-Forms-.html
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
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
