Creator

Ellie Mosgrove

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.

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

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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

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