Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Helen & Wanda Muir]
Transcription
[2]
[in margin: Keenie is charming & seemed gladder than ever to see me]
from the walls, & only a few cracks faintly visible are to be found.
The roof is uninjured except one rafter- broken.
The kitchen chimney was carefully examined by the Insurance Agent & others before a fire was built & all pronounced it perfectly safe. So also it seemed to me. But I had Morgan's man out today to measure it
[1]
At old Home May 2
[1906]
Darling I've been busy cleaning up the rooms with Ah Sun. Yours looks all right now, the shackly mantel had simply fallen off like a postage stamp stuck with poor mucilage The same fate befel the mantel in my bedroom; all the others both up & down stairs are all right & strange to say not a single inch of plaster has fallen
[3]
for a galvanized iron tips to make things doubly safe. It will be put on tomorrow The gaps in the roof where the chimnies are broken off, I'll get mended as soon as possible then all will be sung as far as rain is concerned & [we?] decide about new chimnies etc-
In Martinez the Bank, Library & Bergamini buildings are badly wrecked The crops are looking fine everywhere, & this looks fairly paradisical-
Ever loving father J M
Ill send oranges by Wanda next Sunday They are delicious, but growing scarce
Location
[Martinez, Calif.]
Date Original
1906 May 2
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Helen & Wanda Muir], 1906 May 2." (1906). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 3518.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/3518
Resource Identifier
muir16_0207-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 16, Image 0207
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
Copyrighted
Copyright Statement
The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission to publish or exhibit them, see http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Fees-and-Forms-.html
Owning Institution
The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Copyright Holder
Muir-Hanna Trust
Copyright Date
1984
Pages
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
