Creator
Mother [Ann Gilrye Muir]
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
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I will then have one for all of us here I hope Wanda and Helen and their dear mama are all well I hope one of them will write to some of us before long I send Love to you and all of the friends
Affectionately
Mother
Please ask David to let us know where the screws are for the storm windows
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PORTAGE, WIS.
Sept. 27th, 1892
Dear John
We are all well as usual here and are pleased to know by your letter that you and all the friends that are now around you are also well You have had a good deal of changing round lately. I hope it will turn out for the good of all Anne is much pleased to know that Mrs. Strentzel
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is in Texas as she thinks she will enjoy the visit very much I hope you are relieved of having so much business in hand by selling off some of your land. I am quite sure all of your friends will be much pleased to have you at home for one season While here you told us you would like to see a picture of the home we had when we left Scotland so I wrote to my friend
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Mr William Combe asking him to get me if possible a Picture of the home we left He very quickly responded to my wish by sending me three Photos. I have decided to send one to you so that all the friends near you may see the old place if they wish I think Margt will recognize several of the houses that are seen in the picture I will also send one of the Photos to Daniel so the friends in that direction will see it
Department of the interior
Washington
September 27, 1892.
My dear Sir:
I have yours of the 19th instant, relative to the Yosemite Park, propounding me three questions upon which you desire to be informed, which I will answer in the order in which they are presented:
"1st. As to the reservation made by the President referred to in the protest of the Anti-Park Association of Tulare Co., is this reservation of 7000 sections substantially the one proposed by Muir in his article on 'A Rival of the Yosemite?' the King's River Canon region?"
I do not recollect to have seen the protest spoken of,and from an examination o f the records of this office, I find that the same has not been presented here for consideration. The land embraced within the National Park was set aside, not by the President, but by an act of Congress, approved October 1, 1890, 26 stats., 650, a copy of which I herewith enclose you. I also enclose a copy of the rules and regulations prescribed by me for the observance of parties who visit the park.
"2d.Will you kindly say whether or not the public lands committee passed any legislation in regard to the Yosemite, either State Park or the national one?"
Congress having no jurisdiction over the State Park, no legislation has been had with reference thereto, but it, by act of July19, 1892, granted to the county of Mariposa, California, the right of way for a free wagon road, or turnpike, across the Yosemite National Park in said State, on the condition that said road should be completed within five years from the passage of the act and the United States in no wise to be liable for any expense at any time on account of the building of the road,or turn-pike, or for keeping the same in repair, and upon a forfeiture or abandonment thereof, the land covered by the right of way shall revert to the
Location
Portage, Wis
Date Original
1892 Sep 27
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20 x 24.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, Ann Gilrye, "Letter from Mother [Ann Gilrye Muir] to John Muir, 1892 Sep 27." (1892). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 200.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/200
Resource Identifier
muir07_0671-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 07, Image 0671
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
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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
3 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
