Creator
Mother [Ann Gilrye Muir]
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
[in margin: 542]
Portage April 21st. 1888
Dear John
Here is your birthday, and I congratulate you, and wish you many very happy days and years of life
It seems very wonderful to me that I should be spared to see three of my children over fifty years of age
This brings me face to face with realities making me to see and feel very plainly that my span of life is nearly accomplished
[2]
I thank my Heavenly Father that I can look forward with much more pleasure than I can look backward although I have enjoyed many blessings adn comforts all my life long Much of my happiness has been from my family, all the absent ones remember me with much kindness and my mind often wanders among you all
A few days ago I called on Mrs Goodyear she told me Annie looked well but she thought you looked tired I hope you will not continue writing too closely
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[3]
Mrs. G_ told me she had quite a visit with Joanna, she hired a hack and took them to several places they wished to go
I hope all the family are well.
Give my kindest wishes to all
Affectionately Mother
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Location
Portage, [Wisc.]
Date Original
1888 Apr 21
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20 x 12.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, Ann Gilrye, "Letter from Mother [Ann Gilrye Muir] to John Muir, 1888 Apr 21." (1888). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1758.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1758
Resource Identifier
muir05_1018-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 05, Image 1018
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
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
