Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
Helen [Muir]
Transcription
[Aug. 28, 1888]
[letterhead]
My dear baby Helen Papa is coming home soon to see you & Wanda & Mama & I will be very glad to see baby & hold her in my arms
Papa is far away more than a thousand miles & you can ask Wanda how far that is. & papa was taking a nice walk this morning & big stones were lying about everywhere & lots of water was pouring & falling & making a loud noise among the stones & a little way back from the water papa saw some pretty yellow flowers that they call [Mentrelia?] & he said Oh you beautiful flowers let me pick one of you & I will send it to my own pretty Helen & one to my own Wanda & so here they are & you must give
[in margin: Now kiss Papa good night.]
one to Wanda, & here is a little red one for "Mama
When Papa comes home he will bring something more for baby. & she must be a good girl & love her sister Wanda & Mamma & Grandma & Grand Pa.
When Papa was cooking at the white water & the Yellow flowers & the rose bushes he saw two little red babies & they were Indian babies & their mammas were there too & the babies were tied into little baskets & they didnt cry a bit. & their eyes were very black & they looked up at me but there were too small to speak & they looked like this the bunny little muggins & I saw a lot of cunning little squirrels on the mtons like this but it is too dark to make a good squirrel & when I come home I will make a good one
[sketches]
01318
Location
Spokane Falls, W[ashington] T[erritory]
Date Original
1888 Aug 28
Source
Original letter dimensions: 28 x 14.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from [John Muir] to Helen [Muir], 1888 Aug 28." (1888). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1784.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1784
Resource Identifier
muir05_1154-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 05, Image 1154
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
