Creator

John Muir

Creator

John Muir

Recipient

[Charles A.] Keeler

Transcription

Martinez, Nov 16, 1907

My dear Mr Keeler

I'm very sorry you had to suffer so much acute pain amid your many cares of every sort. Sincerely sympathizing with you I fondly hope good health will soon be yours once more.
Poor Helen is far from well. She was in bed three weeks with pneumonia pl[illegible]sy etc, developed from one of those miserable influenza colds. Whether I'll have to take her to the dry deserts again a few winter weeks will tell.
[illegible]

[in margin: I'm glad to know The Bohemian Club is to do [something?] Thanksgiving, Would like to help any way though]

cares of every sort. Sincerely sympathizing with you I fondly hope good health will soon be yours once more.
Poor Helen is far from well. She was in bed three weeks with pneumonia pleuresy etc, developed from one of those miserable influenza colds, whether I'll have to take her to the dry deserts again a few winter weeks will tell.
It never occurred to me that a Berkeley Improvement Club would want only one side of a great question when I proposed your taking part on the Hetch Hetchy water scheme for the sake of beauty preservation. But perhaps they are mostly real estate agents. Anyhow, you can do much outside of such a club, & we'll win I think.

With love to your darlings I am ever faithfully yours

John Muir.

[in margin: Bohemian Club is to do something for Ina Coolbrith [would?] like to help any way though unable to be present]

Location

Martinez [Calif.]

Date Original

1907 Nov 16

Source

Original letter dimensions unknown.

Resource Identifier

muir16_1193-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 16, Image 1193

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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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

The Huntington Library, Muir Family Papers, HM 57349-57497. 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

2 pages

Keywords

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

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