Creator

John Muir

Creator

John Muir

Recipient

[Katharine M.] Graydon

Transcription

[Original letter returned to Miss Katherine Merrill Graydon].

Martinez, March 27, '07.

My dear Miss Graydon:

Most all the spare dollars in the world seem to be rolling toward education these days, but great teachers are hard to find and can't be had for money. Anyhow, whether or not Catherine Morrill's name is given to a chair of Literature, she will live in the hearts of her friends and her work will go on and be felt for [a] good long [time] after her name is forgotten by the restless stormy world. I'm sorry to hear your mother is not well. Remember me to her when next you write, and to Mrs. Moores and Mina and all the young folks. We all are about as usual here. Helen has got through the winter very well, much to my relief. Wanda is living in the adobe by the front gate. She is not far from us, yet we see but little of her now, as if she were the width of a sea away.

Heaven's good luck be yours,

John Muir

Have done but little more this winter and fall than take care of Helen and repair earthquake shattered house. The one across the valley my sister used to live in is still in ruins.

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

03857

Location

Martinez [Calif.]

Date Original

1907 Mar 27

Source

Original letter dimensions unknown.

Resource Identifier

muir16_0703-trans.tif

File Identifier

Reel 16, Image 0703

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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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