Creator
Marian O. Hooker
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
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are in Martinez, we should like very much to give you our greetings in person. If I do not hear from you by next Friday afternoon, I shall know that you have already gone [illegible] to Arizona again- Helen [Greame?] passes a serene life with her baby and husband - Ellie has had her first trip eastward this past summer- a great [experience?] to her, and one that she got a great deal out of- when the
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1384 Masonic Ave-
San Francisco -
Jan 21- 1906
My dear Mr. Muir-
Your letter returned to me here, and I was very glad to have word of you - the latest news I heard was from Mr. Gannett before Xmas, saying that you were at Adamana and that Miss Helen was doing well- I am so sorry to hear that she is still so far from well and that she had to go through
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with that miserable, anxious time of pneumonia - I do hope that she will gain steadily now and keep you out of all anxiety- and be strong and well by the summer, and make it possible for you all to go to the mountains- As to the Kaweah pilgrims, Ellie is the only one at any distance from me just now. She is in Los Angeles with my mother, doing more than fill my place while I am away- Helen Greame (Mrs.
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Sperry) is at home in San Francisco, and Mrs. Dickey has just gone to Berkeley to be there with Donald while he does work there this spring in preparation for Yale next fall - We three tried hard to arrange an afternoon call on you at Martinez this afternoon- but have failed - I wonder if you will be at home next Sunday afternoon, or whether you will have returned by that time to Adamana- If you
Marian Hooker
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started away, she expected to forsake Los Angeles entirely and make her home here with her sister- but to the surprise of all of us, and the entire satisfaction and delight of the Hooker household, she decided voluntarily to return to Los Angeles and my mother- She is as dear as a daughter to my mother - and her being there makes to way easy for me to be here following my studies at the affiliated colleges (medicine) without the [weary?] 03683
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conscience I should have if there were no young person in the house to keep [home?] bright and help the mother with her cares-
Mrs. Dickey spent part of the summer at Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe, which she enjoyed greatly- After that she was in San Francisco for a time while Donald went off hunting in the mountains in So[illegible]a
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county - It was his ambition to get a deer- he said he wanted one on his record, and would never want another - He succeeded in getting the deer, and I hope will follow out the rest of his statement to the letter.
The warmest regards of all the Kaweah girls to you and your daughters- and their best wishes also.
Faithfully yours,
Marian O. Hooker-
Location
San Francisco
Date Original
1906 Jan 21
Source
Original letter dimensions: 17.5 x 27.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Hooker, Marian O., "Letter from Marian O. Hooker to John Muir, 1906 Jan 21." (1906). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 3475.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/3475
Resource Identifier
muir16_0053-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 16, Image 0053
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
4 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
