Creator
Joanna [Muir Brown]
Recipient
[John Muir]
Transcription
[4]
do not quite stagnate
A letter from Mary yesterday tells us that Maggie has another grandchild at Crete, we do not know whether son or daughter I must write to Maggie and to David as I am owing both letters.
I do not hear anything of your present work. How are you occupied this winter?
With kindest regards to your family I am
Affectionately
Joanna
[1]
Portage Wis
Jan. 13, 1897.
Dear Brother John:_
I was just inwardly scolding myself for not having written to you at the holiday seaon, or later, to thank you for your Christmas remembrance of us all, when along comes another kindness by way of Sarah in the form of an X bill. I do not believe I deserve any kindness from anybody, for I am becoming worse and worse about letter writing, or any expression of sentiment
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[2]
of any kind.
I guess you must think back to the old days when we were an unbroken family around that old pine table at home; and remember that I had a place there, in order to keep the flame of family love burning, so far as I am concerned.
Everything goes on calmly and quietly as usual here the only thing which has happened to cause a ripple was the burning of our slowly repaired and reconstructed church, we feel
[3]
very sad about it, for it represented a good many free will offerings of poor people but the church people are bearing it very courageously and look forward to renewed effort.
The children are doing better than ever, in their studies; Ethel, by a little extra exertion, has caught up a class and would, if she were here, enter the High School after next vacation. Bessie too has been promoted but she is not quite so willing to apply herself yet, maybe she will by & bye Bernice continues to say & do original things and amongst them all we
Location
Portage, Wisc.
Date Original
1897 Jan 13
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 26.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Brown, Joanna Muir, "Letter from Joanna [Muir Brown] to [John Muir], 1897 Jan 13." (1897). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2119.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2119
Resource Identifier
muir09_0619-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 09, Image 0619
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
