Creator

John Muir

Creator

John Muir

Recipient

[Katharine M.] Graydon

Transcription

[Original letter returned to Miss Katharine Merrill Graydon].

Martinez, California,
Dec. 15, '06.

My dear Miss Graydon,

We were all glad to hear from you once more in your balmy island home, in good health and hopes after so long a silence. How letter-mute the whole Merrill family have been for a year or more. The last three years have been full of change and trouble and anxious care. Helen is still far from well, though much better, and we hope the sick lung will at length be completely healed.
Wanda married a civil engineer,-Mr. Hanna.- Her name and address is now Mrs. Wanda Muir Hanna. Martinez. They are going to live in the adobe and run the ranch. Helen and I in the big house on the knoll. Sister Maggie is about as usual, so are the Swetts and Colemans. My brother David and his wife now live in Pacific Grove. I am glad the Graydons are to have a home of their own. How happy you must be in the planning and building of it. Give them my love when next you write.
For the last three months we have been repairing the earthquake-shaken house, about as big a job as building a new one. As for books I haven't written a word for the press in the last three years. Surely you will come to see us on your way home. May you find many blessings in the coming New Year, and believe me,

Ever your friend.
John Muir

[*from Honolulu.]

[Envelope addressed Miss Katherine M. Graydon, Oahu College, Honolulu, H.I.]

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Location

Martinez, Calif.

Date Original

1906 Dec 15

Source

Original letter dimensions unknown.

Resource Identifier

muir16_0437-trans.tif

File Identifier

Reel 16, Image 0437

Collection Identifier

Online finding aid for the microform version of the John Muir Correspondence http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0w1031nc

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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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

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.

Copyright Holder

Muir-Hanna Trust

Copyright Date

1984

Pages

1 page

Keywords

Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters

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