Creator
[Louie Strentzel Muir]
Recipient
Wanda [Muir]
Transcription
[1]
Martinez, Calif.
June 15, 1905
My darling Wanda,
Your delightful letter has just come and though I have both laughed and cried over it, there is comfort in it too. I have just found Wilcox on the map and suppose that letters will come from there in about 2 days. O, it seems a long long way; and yet it is always near our own California.
Helen's precious letter came day before yesterday and I took it over to Aunt Margaret. She seemed pretty well, and said she would try to answer when you wrote.
A letter had just come from Grace Paullin saying she expected to be in Portland June 22, and
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[2]
afterward she will come to Pacific Grove and here!
Uncle David had a letter from Carrie Owen inclosing a Los Angeles paper clipping which said that John Muir & daughters had been a week visiting at Mr. Lummis' and naturally she felt aggrieved. Her address is 2201 West 8th St. Los Angeles, Aunt Ette wrote her that you were only one day at Lummis' house.
The Will Muirs have the kitchen dining room, and our old room upstairs! to think of it!
Ette uses the lower east room for her dining room and has a kerosene stove there. No wonder she looked tired after all that moving and shifting about. Uncle David seems pretty well. He gave me some delicious peaches
[3]
from the tree in the yard.
How I do wish I could send you all the box of glowing red raspberries that Mrs. Boss brought to day. Write if there is anything I can send to you.
I opened Dr. Merriam's letter thinking he might be coming at once. Charlotte H. also writes a pretty note thanking for the cherries that her mother so much enjoyed.
Charlotte spend a week in Mendocino Co. and then 10 days in Carmel. She wishes you all a happy and fortunate summer.
O my beloved three, if ever loving wishes and earnest prayers can guard and help you, surely you will have a summer and a winter of good fortune.
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Frances and Mr. Douglass telephoned that they would come Saturday on the Santa Fe to stay a while. They are both very well.
Keeney seems to be wondering why the place is so silent, though the birds are singing merrily as ever.
The weather is beautiful every morning, but the evenings are almost wintry, with great masses of blue fog rolling over Benicia and Mt. Diablo.
Sun says the Postman is coming so good bye.
Ever lovingly,
Mother
Location
Martinez, Calif.
Date Original
1905-06-15 0:00
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 13 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, Louie, "Letter from [Louie Strentzel Muir] to Wanda [Muir], 1905 Jun 15." (1905). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 3349.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/3349
Resource Identifier
muir15_0530-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 15, Image 0530
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
3 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
