Creator
A. H. Sellers
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
WESTERN BANK NOTE CO. CHICAGO.
HOTEL METROPOLE
Michigan Ave. and 23rd St.
MANAGEMENT
C. C. HORTON – F. G. WARDEN.
ABSOLUTELY FIRE PROOF HOTEL
300 ROOMS.
THE METROPOLE COMPANY
PROPRIETOR.
2
Chicago,
August 7th 1907.
My Dear Mr. Muir:-
Last night Mrs. Sellers said to me “Is’nt it strange that we have not heard a word from Mr. Muir? I feel worried about him”, I replied I will write him tomorrow. About noon today, she came up from the hotel office all smiling, and said “you remember I spoke to you last night about not hearing from Mr. Muir, and now here is a letter from him”, and. I assure you we were glad to get it.
Well, when we got home from Pasadena, my heart was troubling me very much, so I called on my doctor, Frank S. Johnson, who is a heart and lung specialist. He told me that my heart was in very bad shape, that I had been abusing it, that the only way to cure heart troubles was to give it complete and, as far as possible, absolute rest, and not to fight it. He then put me under the “Nauheim” treatment. Nauheim, Germany, is where so many go for heart troubles. There is a Swede here who was educated in the Nauheim sanitarium, and gives the treatment at your home. It consists of certain very, slow movements of the arms, legs, and body, designed to very slowly exercise and strenghten certain muscles of the heart. Following this I take a bath, in which are placed 15 lbs of salt, 3or 4 pints of “Calcium Chloride”, I think this is right, and 6 or 8 cakes, with a lot of soda, which cause the cakes to liberate an immense quantity of carbonic acid gas, so that the watter in the tub boils violently. In this bath I remain for 15 minutes, am then put to bed to sleep for an hour. I have now been taking this treatment for five weeks,
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WESTERN BANK NOTE CO. CHICAGO.
HOTEL METROPOLE
Michigan Ave. and 23rd St.
MANAGEMENT
C. C. HORTON – F. G. WARDEN.
ABSOLUTELY FIRE PROOF HOTEL
300 ROOMS.
THE METROPOLE COMPANY
PROPRIETOR.
2
Chicago,
and it is astonishing the improvement it has made. I told the doctor, last night, that I believed that I was well, and could now go to work. You ought to have heard the raking over he gave me. Told me that I was in good condition to fully recover, but that I had several months yet to do so, of very careful nursing of my heart to acomplish it. That I could by carelessness undo, in five minutes all that I had gained in five weeks work. This is rather discouraging but I will have to stand it, for I feel it is right.
My wife's neice, Rhea Logan, is to be married the 20th, at the family's summer home at Darien Conn, on Long Island sound. We leave for there the 12th inst, and they want us to stay down there, with them, a month, I dont know that I can stay that long, but the doctor thinks it will help me very much, the sea air, and the quiet life I must lead. I am very anxious to get my stuff out to California, and get to living once more. I hope to leavve here, for Pasadena, about the 15th of October.
My address here will still be at this hotel, and letters will be forwarded tome. Mrs. Sellers is at her dressmakers, but know she will join me in kind regards to you all. Were very sorry to hear of brother Keith's accident, kindly remember us to him.
Yours very sincerely
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Location
Chicago
Date Original
1907 Aug 7
Source
Original letter dimensions: 27.5 x 21.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Sellers, A. H., "Letter from A. H. Sellers to John Muir, 1907 Aug 7." (1907). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 3733.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/3733
Resource Identifier
muir16_0893-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 16, Image 0893
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
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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
