Creator
Ellie Mosgrove
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
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must have. We are trying to find some place for her with one or two congenial souls where she will be contented and get well. I am sure your girls would like her and she them. As you are so very busy perhaps Wanda or Helen would write me
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January 31st.
My dear Mr. Muir:
Marian has just written me of her visit with you and said she wished I had been there and I must say she faintly wishes when compared to mine.
I have thought so often of you in your sorrow and
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anxiety and wish in some small way I might lighten it. If I could do anything for you and your girls I should love to do it.
I think the Kaweah days were the very happiest days of my life full of the joy of living and being.
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The glory of it all often goes through me like a great wave and I live through it again and again.
We have a very great friend, a most charming girl. She has taught in the schools for some years has lost her health and
Kaweah Pilgrims
Ellie Mosgrove
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about the place they are in. She must sleep in a tent and live the life Helen lives.
It seems awful at times to think we are not given the strength to do our part.
It may seem too far to send her but we are
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anxious to have as many things to choose from as possible.
Please give the girls my love and do try and stop off here on your way back to Arizona.
Sincerely yours
Ellie Mosgrove
Location
[place unknown]
Circa Date
[1906] Jan 31
Source
Original letter dimensions: 16 x 25.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Mosgrove, Ellie, "Letter from Ellie Mosgrove to John Muir, [1906 ?] Jan 31." (1906). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 3480.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/3480
Resource Identifier
muir16_0075-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 16, Image 0075
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
Some letters written to John Muir may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
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
