Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Helen [Muir]
Transcription
[in margin: Helen
June 17, 1906]
[1]
May's June 17/06
Darling Helen.
I'm getting ready for Adamana once more. I intend starting on the 20th of the Wedding Day month, so if all goes well I'll be with you about noon next Friday & we will have a lot more fine good bad land trips together ere the coming of [zero?] & final farewell to the obi one & coal bunkers
I'll bring you some oranges & dainties etc. & lots of Sig [lore?].
Yesterday I met the two men you took to the N. Forest & Blue. They said you were a great guide. They are
[3]
Once more goodbye darling Heaven bless you.
All Egypt's ancient plagues are as nothing to the pleasure of being with you again So prays & s[illegible]
Your loving father
John Muir
[marginalia]
[2]
coming to see me & show their photographs this afternoon. Wanda says Mr Stevenson has not yet put fly screens on the cottage windows & doors tho I called attention to the matter before I left. Tell him I can't live in it a single day with the flies.-broken chinmenys weddings & flies- what a botherable mixture!
On the other hand we are all pretty well even Maggie & must hope & pray our way as best we may
Location
[Martinez, Calif.]
Date Original
1906 Jun 17
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Helen [Muir], 1906 Jun 17." (1906). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 3545.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/3545
Resource Identifier
muir16_0291-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 16, Image 0291
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 Huntington Library, Muir Family Papers, HM 57349-57497. 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
