Creator
Ellie Mosgrove
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
[4]
empty I wish Helen might be well again and able to go home. Please do not pass through again without seeing me. I live at the school which is about one mile and a half on A[illegible] Street.
If I do not write you again this year I hope next year will be a happy one if not one way or another — someway. Saw Mr. Keith for a minute a week ago.
Affectionately yours
Ellie Mosgrove
[1] 1706
LOS ANGELES
Dear Mr. Muir:-
My [very?] firm [resolve?] [illegible] to write the minute following the making of your inquiry but I have allowed the demands of this school to take the place of all such resolves. Perhaps you have forgotten that a friend and I opened a
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[2]
[illegible][illegible][illegible][illegible] this Fall.
We have been most successful as schools usually go the first year. We have twenty-five children enrolled. Twelve in the Primary and grammar department and thirteen in mine.
Have I written you since I saw Mr. John Van Dyke. He was very charming he lunched
[3]
with us on his way through to his brother's ranch in D[illegible]gett.
Mr. Hooker is home again but Mrs. Hooker still [lingers?] in the East. M[illegible] is at college and [illegible].
Mr. Hooker was in the East for three months and was ill most of the time while there.
I am sorry your house has to be
Location
Los Angeles
Circa Date
[1906 Dec]
Source
Original letter dimensions: 17.5 x 22.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Mosgrove, Ellie, "Letter from Ellie Mosgrove to John Muir, [ca. 1906 Dec ?] ." (1906). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 3612.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/3612
Resource Identifier
muir16_0487-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 16, Image 0487
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
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
