Creator
Helen Muir
Recipient
[John Muir]
Transcription
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Martinez, California. Nov. 2, 1898
Dear Papa
About a week ago we received a letter from Burlington and a Postal from Montreal and then we received a Postal Card that you must have forgoten to write on for there was nothing on it but the address, even the post mark was rubed out so we could not tell where it came from, we were all very sorry not to hear from you.
This afternoon Wanda and I went over to Aunt Margaret's, she has not been well for a few days but she is as well as usual now. I picked up a lot of walnuts from the trees there.
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When you come back you will see a grate change on the work on the railroad, yesterday Fannie and Mr Douglass and I went up and walked quite a way on the embankment, I did not find any good fossils this time but we have a good many here already for you. It rained a little here early this morning but it is clear and bright now but a little cold in the shade, there has been frost nearly every morning this week. Keenie is getting bigger, smarter and prettier every day, he shakes hands beautifully, when I say good morning to him when I come down in the morning. Tommy is well but is dreadfully lonesome without you, he runs upstairs and meows at your door everytime he gets a chance, he went up and did it yesterday.
Fannie went home Monday Mr Douglass
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came up for her.
Write soon and tell us where you are and how soon you will be home.
Your loving little daughter
Helen Muir
My dear Papa,
I have just received your letter from New York and we have all enjoyed the account of your lively wanderings very much, what a wonderful lot of beautiful places you must have seen, I do wish that I were with you and seeing them all too, but I should think that you would get dreadfully tired rushing around from one end
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of the country to the other, we will not be much surprised to get a letter from you from alomost anywhere now.
The Atlantic came last night and we have been reading your animal article in it today, it is fine.
We are all well here, we took your letter over to Aunt Margaret's so that she could enjoy it too, she is as well as usual.
I am glad to hear that our letters reached you at last but it seems rather funny to think of serving them on silver plates as part of your dinner.
It seem a long time since we saw you, don't stay away too dreadfully long.
Your loving daughter
Wanda Muir
Location
Martinez, Calif.
Date Original
1898 Nov 2
Source
Original letter dimensions: 22 x 14.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, Helen, "Letter from Helen Muir to [John Muir], 1898 Nov 2." (1898). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2295.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2295
Resource Identifier
muir10_0429-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 10, Image 0429
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
