Creator

Helen Muir

Creator

Helen Muir

Recipient

[John Muir]

Transcription

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Mrs. Helen Lukens Jones sent me some pictures not long ago and wrote, sending you her best regards.
Write again soon and let us know where to send our letters.
Good night, with love from us all. Wanda will write soon.

Your loving daughter

Helen Muir.

Martinez,

October 7th - 1903.

Oct 7 03

Dear Papa,

We received your letter and two postal cards on the twenty ninth, and it did us all good to hear from you again. But I myself have received no letter since you left the Urals. mountains.
You have never told us yet whether you have received our letters.
We are all well here, except that we have colds. Aunt Margaret was about as usual

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where we saw her last.
Mr. and Mrs. Westlake are still at the Sanitarium in Oakland. Mr. Westlake seems a little better just now, but there is no hope and he is slowly growing weaker every day.
The weather here is beautiful now, but winter will soon be here. The grapes are at their best and every one is busy shipping them. A good many are sent from Muir Station every day.

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Wanda is hard at work at college, and I with High School.
We had a delightful visit with the Merriams two weeks ago, but they only stayed one day. The Docter had some beautiful pictures which he showed us. The [Gannetts?] returned from the Philippianes about three weeks ago, and hurried home to Washington so we did not see them.
Dr. Merriam said Dr. [Gannett?] was much pleased with the Philippiane Islands.

Location

Martinez, Calif.

Date Original

1903 Oct 7

Source

Original letter dimensions: 16 x 25 cm.

Resource Identifier

muir13_0832-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 13, Image 0832

Collection Identifier

Online finding aid for the microform version of the John Muir Correspondence http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0w1031nc

Copyright Statement

Some letters written to John Muir may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.

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

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