Creator
Geo[rge] Hansen
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
GEO. HANSEN
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
2705 HEARST AVENUE, BERKELEY, CAL.
ADVISORY ARCHITECT TO PARK COMMISSIONS,
MUNICIPALITIES AND CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONS
June 28th., 1904.
Friend,
You do hot know much about this house, and as t know that you dont waste time reading newspapers, I thought you would like to step in our circle just for ten minutes relief in your studies. I, or rather we, send you two letters that arrived from our neighbors who "do" Europe. They were perfect strangers to us till, now seven years since, I laid out their little bit of creek garden (below Keelers),(one man told me never to mention that I had anything to do with their garden because nobody could tell that anything had been done to it). Not till two sad death entered their homelife and till I got of my underpinning did they enter our homelife. (Mr. M. was a retired banker, and the widow is worth, at best, a round one hundred thousand). During two long years this old lady has come to this backdoor of ours not less than once a week, mostly oftener, never once with empty hands, if it be but a sprig of sweetbrier, or sprucelimb (that I had planted) and never once has she spoken to me one word abort my aliment. What else she and her daughter (who came regularly playing piano for us by the hour) have been to us, God keeps track of in his garden where he plants a daisy for every good deed of ours. - And as they are to us, so to everybody, and their company recruits from the highways and byways.
I have asked my friends "back hone" to be good to them. You see what Mr. o'Brien does; and their Christmas was in the hones of my best friends in the town where I was born.
Please, let us have the letters back, and do not waste words commenting. Just an envelope and stamp, and your postmark "Martinez"; the rest we know.
03392Swe had a man yesterday cleaning the yard before summerschool students come in and could get their dresses filled with stickers. He was a perfectly new man to us. When he left he divided his wages with the child outside and he run in to slip it into his mother's purse. Our house is built upon rock, and whoever touches its foundation draws the crystalspring of living water. I pray to God that he mix one drop of it into each draft that any of our friends drink anywhere.
Who took [illegible] to put it into his bank book
Your friend,
[illegible]
Location
Berkeley, Calif.
Date Original
1904 Jun 28
Source
Original letter dimensions: 28 x 21.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Hansen, George, "Letter from Geo[rge] Hansen to John Muir, 1904 Jun 28." (1904). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2807.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2807
Resource Identifier
muir14_0282-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 14, Image 0282
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
