Creator
Annie L. [Muir]
Recipient
Wanda & Helen [Muir]
Transcription
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I am hoping to have a letter from each of you soon. I miss the letters that used to come from you so often.
please give my love to your mamma & to dear Grandma Strentzel. I have given up hoping for letters from them, but perhaps they will give me a grand surprise some day.
Cordially & lovingly,
Your Aunt Annie L.
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Portage. Wis, May. 30--
Dear Wanda and Helen,
This is Decoration Day and I have just returned from the Court-House where the usual exercised of this day were held. We usually meet in the High School Park, but it was raining beautifully so we went to the Court-House instead.
The children from our sixteen schools marched; with the Old Soldiers, the Guppy Guards, and some other orders, making a long, fine looking procession.
They carried flags, and had a Brass Band with stirring
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music to lead them and as it was raining very lightly at that time they looked very happy, and it was a pleasure to see them. Ethel & Bessie Bowen were there, and even little Bernice marched with the others, so that she did not sit near her Mamma & I, and when she got tired of sitting & staying there she concluded to go home to Grandma's. So out she went when the rain was pouring down. We did not see her go, and when we got home there was a strange looking little figure in one of Aunt Sarah's wrappers, all draped up in queer fashion.
Aunt Sarah said she was so
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wet when she came in that she had to strip her and manage the best way she could.
It is past six o'clock now and the sun is shining out, and Portage itself is decorated. The trees & grass are so beautifully green & sparkling with rain drops and the roses & syringia have burst into bloom, with some pansies & other plants, I am sure your eyes would sparkle with pleasure if they could see just what mine see from this window, at which I am writing. I sincerely hope that you may some day.
Location
Portage, Wisc.
Circa Date
[1895] May 30
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20 x 25 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, Annie L., "Letter from Annie L. [Muir] to Wanda & Helen [Muir], [ca. 1895] May 30 ." (1895). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 3101.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/3101
Resource Identifier
muir08_1019-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 08, Image 1019
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
