Creator
Annie L. Muir
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
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large audiences - We have not lost our faith nor our courage however, for "The Lord Requith" & we will yet rejoice.
I thank you for your Christmas present & for your good wishes for the New Year. May the Coming Year be the best you have ever had is the Prayer of your loving Sister
Annie L. Muir
P.S. My best wishes for a Happy New year to all of your family_ Grandma, Strentzel included
A.L.M.
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P.S. How would you advise me to invest my money when it comes?
[11 Jan 1897]
02216
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Portage, Wis. Jan. 11- 97.
Dear Brother John.
Your letter of the 1st gave me great satisfaction. And I cannot tell you how deeply grateful I am to you for your brotherly kindness, in this matter. To have this business settled to David's satisfaction--and to know that all of his dealings with Mother were just what they should be gives me great comfort; for Mother never understood the situation--or, if she did, at the time of David's settlement with her, she must have forgotten it immediately, for, as you yourself know, she was never satisfied about it and expressed many doubts. Of this David need never know anything further, as
02216
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it would only give him pain--But, Thank God, it is all made plain 'now and I am hartily glad & thankful.
You will never know what a relief the $50 which reached me last Tuesday from David, gave me. The taxes ($30) were due. That is to say, a fine would have been imposed if not paid within four days more and I had only $10, and was needing a cord of wood out of that.
I am all right now, and was able to let Joanna have $5 more to keep her along till she gets more from Walter or until we hear from Scotland.
Walter still writes encouragingly about his new business. & Joanna keeps up good courage
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We, of the Baptist Church are in great tribulations for our new church building, which we had, with a great effort, been able to reconstruct out of the Old Presbyterian One, was on Saturday the 9th burned up. and is now a mass of ruins. I don't say burned down for the walls still stand they being remarkably strong & thick. And the rafters are still there & some or the roof but the sky can be seen through it.
The flames licked the interior clean. And the poor people who sawed & hammered and dug sand & made many sacrifices to build it are now without a Church House. Mr. Fawcett preached in the Opera House yesterday to
Location
Portage, Wisc.
Date Original
1897 Jan 11
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20 x 25 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, Annie L., "Letter from Annie L. Muir to John Muir, 1897 Jan 11." (1897). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2118.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2118
Resource Identifier
muir09_0615-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 09, Image 0615
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
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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
