Creator
Abbie A. Allen
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
San Jose, May 4th, 1878.
Dear Mr. Muir:
It was very good of you to send us your shadow. We shall prize it, I assure you. Hattie has appropriated it, and places it on the music rack while she practices. Hope it will infuse some of your perseverance into her. She is writing to you, with no one to prompt her in her effort-be so good as to imagine interesting matter of that which is beyond your "ken."
Annie Chamberlain said, as she looked at the photo - "how I do wish I had one." Can't you please her as well as you have us? Mr. Allen returned from Nevada last evening. Had a half day in the woods and brought me a rare fern - to us_ rare and pretty.
Jessie has a long letter from Gracie Sterling. She is twenty-one years of age, and Charlie, the tiny boy that we knew, is eighteen. It does not seem possible they are so far on the road of life. Mr. Muir, let me impress upon your mind that we are to have a fine little maid of
? , even among the scaly pepper trees. Come again before long to see my word prove true. Accept our good wishes, and drop us a line often.
Yours truly,
Abbie A. Allen
Location
San Jose, [Calif]
Date Original
1878 May 4
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 13 cm.
Recommended Citation
Allen, Abbie A., "Letter from Abbie A. Allen to John Muir, 1878 May 4." (1878). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 417.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/417
Resource Identifier
muir03_0795-md-1.pdf
File Identifier
Reel 03, Image 0794
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
Some letters written to John Muir may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
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
3 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
