Creator
Mother [Ann Gilrye Muir]
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
[4]
I send kind love to you and your family and also to Margt & John and all their family as they have very kindly remembered me at all times
Annie unites with me in kindest love to you all
Affectionately
Mother
[1]
Portage october 15th 1895
Dear John
I gladly received your letter telling me of your arrival safely at home, after your trip to the wild woods, about the same time I received a letter and Photo from Mrs Lunam of herself & daughter from Edinburgh where they were spending there vacation, as a family
02040
[2]
[illegible] their house during the summer months she wrote that she intended to send you a Photo also as soon as she thought you would be at home [probably?] you have got it by this time
I am much pleased to know that David is getting along so well in his new kind of work but by this time he will be well acquainted with it, his Daughter Anne is now married and I suppose is comfortable
[3]
We had a letter from Mary a fortnight ago, her home is in Kearney Neb her family are all well, but Willis has not been very well for some time Nearly all of the children attend school
Several of my old friends have died lately and last week Annie & I went to the Cemetery to visit their last resting places.
Location
Portage, Wisc.
Date Original
1895 Oct 15
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20 x 25 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, Ann Gilrye, "Letter from Mother [Ann Gilrye Muir] to John Muir, 1895 Oct 15." (1895). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 3156.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/3156
Resource Identifier
muir08_1249-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 08, Image 1249
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
