Creator

Ann Gilrye Muir

Creator

Mother [Ann Gilrye Muir]

Recipient

John Muir

Transcription

Portage April 22d 1889

Dear John

Another Birth-Day of yours, has come and gone, I have been spared to see your fifty first year, and I congratulate you and hope you will be spared to see many happy years yet to come I went off this afternoon to the woods across the Rail Road track to look for a spring flower to send you, but have only found these

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I hope your and family are all well, and also Mr. & Mrs Strentzel I have not been as well as usual this spring but for the last two weeks I am nearly quite well again I can now walk about as far as I used to do We are all well as usual here

Sincere love to all

Affectionately

Mother

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Location

Portage, [Wisc]

Date Original

1889 Apr 23

Source

Original letter dimensions: 20 x 12.5 cm.

Resource Identifier

muir06_0065-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 06, Image 0065

Collection Identifier

Online finding aid for the microform version of the John Muir Correspondence http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0w1031nc

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

1 page

Keywords

Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters

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