Creator
Janet [Douglass Moores]
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
[4] [in margin: 958]and stay over Sunday?Don't say for me to come, if it is not convenient.Mary is not at home today, but I do not think she can go.I want to see you and hear you talk _ & see if you are in any way the same.How much you have seen and learned and lived & how much you will have to tell_ I have been of as little use for so long a time, that I feel as if I had not half- lived>[1][in margin: With kindest regards to your wife & yourself. Sincerely Your friend Janet] March 1st, 1887 1829 San Pablo OaklandMy Dear Friend_I was delighted to receive your illustrated letter_ & thought the sketches as lively as did your little girl The one I was most interested in, however was not pretty_ I am glad you have prepared me_ but I do not believe you look quite as shaggy as you pretend.I, too, must prepare
[2]you_ You must not look for a delicate, fairy creature. it pains me to undeceive you, but I think it is best _ I am not pretty_ I do not even feel as if I could be counted so in the score of "pretty is as pretty does"? for I feel decidedly cross. I should love to take a long walk with you & wear it off. There is noth- ing like it for improving one's temper_ Query?After much discussion01258[3]of what is best, Mary and I have at last decided to go south, to Los Angeles she to stay in [illegible]- neigh- borhood, probably, & I to be with her for three or four months _ to try the country and climate.I want Mamma to come out in May, but I cannot tell whether she will think it best.If the roads are good, & the telephone in order, May I come up Saturday
Location
…Oakland, [Calif]
Date Original
1887 Mar 1
Source
Original letter dimensions: 18 x 22 cm.
Recommended Citation
Moores, Janet Douglass, "Letter from Janet [Douglass Moores] to John Muir, 1887 Mar 1." (1887). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1710.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1710
Resource Identifier
muir05_0792-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 05, Image 0792
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
