Creator
Maggie [Margaret Muir Reid]
Recipient
[John Muir]
Transcription
[4]
And so niece Annie G.G. has got married & gone to live near her old home in 'Fort Winnebago' town. We are all about in our usual health. Give my love to Louie and the children, also kind regards to Doctor and Mrs Strentzel.
Affectionately
Your Sister
Maggie
01469
[1]
Collyer Kan Oct 26 1890
Dear Brother John
I am wearying for a few words from you tellng me that you have arrvied safely at home to your dear ones. I hope that you found all well that little Helen's health is again firm & your own improved by the change. also that your trip has proved a benefit every way We have been reading your Grand discription of the proposed 'Yosemite National Park' in the 'Century Magazine' & expect the
[2]
Girls to send the numbers in which are your other articles soon. I have a discription of 'Hetch Hetchy Yalley' which you wrote after your first excursion through it in 1871. you had cut it from a magazine dated 1873, a long long time ago. I suppose you are as busy as a man can be in many ways since your return home (which I take for granted) as Louie told me in her very kind letter of five or six weeks ago, that she had got word of your having started for home. But oh try & go slow John you will work yourself out soon if you do not. I received the
[3]
money you so kindly sent me just before you started for Alaska, and I thank you for your thoughtful and more than Brotherly kindness to me & mine. Crops are poor again this year, but I am so glad to be able to tell you that John has got a job which will bring us in enough to live on for a year. a Nebraska stock man who has brought or driven a large flock of sheep from Texas through this part of Kansas on their way to Neb has hired J. to care for & feed for a year about 1700 of them. They dipped about seven thousand sheep here.
Location
Collyer, [Kansas]
Date Original
1890 Oct 26
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 25cm.
Recommended Citation
Reid, Margaret Muir, "Letter from Maggie [Margaret Muir Reid] to [John Muir], 1890 Oct 26." (1890). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1963.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1963
Resource Identifier
muir06_0705-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 06, Image 0705
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
