Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
David [Gilrye Muir]
Transcription
1330
Martinez Dec. 24 1888_
Dear Brother David. To you & yours I wish with all my heart a merry & happy new Year & Christmas, May you make plenty of money for all the honey you may need to strengthen & sweeten your own life, & your wife's, & childrens, & a few cents & dollars more for friends & neigh- -bors, so that, however faint & diluted, all the world may be made a little better, a little sweeter from your having lived in it. This you know is a figure of speech & does not mean what is says but a merchant will understand what is meant in referring to all the grace & goodness of life as money without being drawn too rudely & far from the beloved ledger.
Since your 2d marriage you have maintained a grand significant (or stupid) silence too happy for words I suppose or letters & only through others have I heard that you were well & prosperous. I too I am afraid have sinned in this matter of silence drifting on in streams & whirls of business care & pleasure
Location
Martinez, [Calif]
Date Original
1888 Dec 24
Source
Original letter dimensions: 27 x 21 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from [John Muir] to David [Gilrye Muir], 1888 Dec 24." (1888). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1802.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1802
Resource Identifier
muir05_1232-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 05, Image 1232
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
1 page
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
