Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Helen [Muir]
Transcription
[1]
Four Brook Farm
Tyringham, Berkshire Hills,
Nov. 1, 1898
My dear Helen.
This is Mr. Gilder's place in the country about 150 miles from New York. It is in a broad glacial valley & is the most famed for its picturesque beauty of all New England. Mr. Gilder invited me up here last Saturday & Ive been rambling with him & resting & having a fine time everway Mr. Gilder has five children two of the boys are at school & two of the girls are here they are about 6 & 8 years old & a few minutes ago it was funny to see these merry red cheeked [lassies?] driving off by themselves in a comical little cart, drawn by a comical little donkey to buy cats. One of the girls had a basket & the other a handful of greenbacks & I said "where are you going my pretty maids" To buy sweet little kitties sweet sir she said or something like it. Surely you dont need to much money for cats I said
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O Yes we do said they for they are beautiful Angoras sweet white Angora kitties, & we are going to take them to New York. I said well dont let the donkey run away "O no he wont run away we have to whip him sometimes to make him just walk. Just at this moment the girls & the new cats have come all the them beauties very expressive faces & silky hair How you would enjoy the fun of introducing your Maggie & Wanda to them.
Tell Mamma Ive enjoyed Mr & Mrs Gilder ever so much. On the way here on the car I was introduced to Joseph Choate the great lawyer & on Sunday Mr Gilder & I drove over to his fine residence at Stockbridge to dinner & I had a good long talk with him about forests as well as glaciers etc. Today we all go back to New York. This evening I dine with Johnson & tomorrow I go up the Hudson to the Osburns. There probably I dine with Tesla (I saw him in his workshop) then I suppose Ill have to go to Florida & then gladly home
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It is a bright autumn day the North wind is blowing swirling the brown & yellow leaves in heaps & sheets & windrows & soon the trees will be bare & ready for winter these three days are the first real rest days Ive had since I last saw you my dear. Mrs Gilder was asking all about you & I showed her your pictures & she said they were lovely & like me I wish I could start straight home from these charming Berkshire hills I'll soon be back anyhow. Give my love to all & Maggie. Here are some Wintergreens from the hill back of the house.
Yours my darlings
J.M.
Location
Four Brook Farm, Tyringham, Berkshire Hills [N.Y.]
Date Original
1898 Nov 1
Source
Original letter dimensions: 28 x 21.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Helen [Muir], 1898 Nov 1." (1898). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2293.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2293
Resource Identifier
muir10_0419-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 10, Image 0419
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
Copyrighted
Copyright Statement
The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission to publish or exhibit them, see http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Fees-and-Forms-.html
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.
Copyright Holder
Muir-Hanna Trust
Copyright Date
1984
Pages
3 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
