Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Dav[id Gilrye Muir]
Transcription
01340
Martinez April 20, 1889.
Dear brother Dave -
Yrs of Mch 19 came in good time that is anytime, for you write so seldom unless spurred by [mere?] business. I am glad to hear that you have all come through the winter unfrozen & that mother is again in her usual health. Annie writes that she suffered a good deal in the beginning of winter but is now hopeful & in fair health. I sent John $1000 which I hope will tide him over his worst difficulties - I tseems strange that a practical stockman should have been so easily imposed on as he was in the matter of those mustang colts. Have you yet divided gains with Dave in that syndicate business? I have not been able to get a dollar or word out of him
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concerning the affair nor can I learn anything about the Kansas City investment wh was to have been "turned over" so fast & handsomely. This money business seems like a ratchet wheel that will only turn one way, that is away - never back this way. As to Willie he should be started in the way he would like to go in case he has any [illegible] like. If not then in any good normal way leading with fair labor & care to independence. The fruit business here is a good one - clean decent respectable & far removed as a general thing from starvation or anything like it. If he is willing to be careful, painstaking work hard (though not half as hard as we had to work at Fountain Lake & Hickory Hill in the grim sad [illegible] early days) & be content
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with small wages at first then perhaps you had better send him out to me & I will set him to work. And when you want to retire to private life & seek an honest living you had better rid yourself of those [illegible] good, [illegible] [illegible] & come too - Am hard at work on the vineyards & orchards while the publishers of [illegible] Cal are screaming for copy while months have been taken up by sickness etc. We are well again however & [illegible] thankful. When are you going to visit us now that your political partner has cained office you will no doubt be held closer than ever. Your wife ought to have made you bring her out here on her wedding trip. Farewell. My kindest regards to her & all the family. Ever truly yours brother John
Location
Martinez, [Calif]
Date Original
1889 Apr 20
Source
Original letter dimensions: 27.5 x 21 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Dav[id Gilrye Muir], 1889 Apr 20." (1889). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1814.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1814
Resource Identifier
muir06_0059-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 06, Image 0059
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
3 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
