Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[A. H.] Sellers
Transcription
[1]
Martinez, Apr 11, 1900.
My dear Sellers,
Sure enough it has been an unconscionably long time without a word between us, though for a month or two I have been expecting to see you here. & when you letter cam I looked eagerly to see whether it was from Chicago or San Francisco. Well I was glad to get it anyhow though I wish the news had been better. Mrs Sellers not well & you still toiling & battling in that confounded big smothering company - on the other hand I'm glad to know that you are in good health & that Frank is all right. Mrs Muir has been pretty well all winter & the two girls are in perfect health. Wanda is at school in Berkeley full of ambition, determined
2
to go through the University, as for myself I've been half dead all winter with Grippe, bronchitis, & book writing. I haven't seen Keith for four months but I hear from him. He is pa[illegible]ing better than [illegible] & is growing rich & possibly a little wiser. Though the last is desperately doubtful: I ventured as far as Berkey day before yesterday to a big dinner that I could not escape. I met a lot of famous folk & the table it was grand - but nothing compared to a crust of bread & champagne water in the [silver?]-fir woods on the margin of a lily garden, or to the easy friendly dinners I enjoyed at the Michigan Avenue home I'm so [stupid?] & have so many interruptions I make very slow progress with my writing but hope to do better ere long.
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When you Guarantee & Trust bonds are broken we must celebrate your freedom in a grand wild excursion on ice or in forests. I fondly hope Mrs Sellers will soon be quite well again. Give my Kindest regards to Frank
Ever truly your friend
John Muir
[canceled envelope, Apr [illegible] 1900]
John Muir
Col. A.H. Sellers
3420 Michigan Ave.
Chicago, Ill.
[4]
I'll send some photographs as soon as I get them Nearly 5000 negatives were made, about 150 or 200 really magnificent Have seen proofs but none have been distributed yet.
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1900 Apr 11
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [A. H.] Sellers, 1900 Apr 11." (1900). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 4263.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/4263
Resource Identifier
muir11_0201-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 11, Image 0201
Copyright Status
Copyrighted
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
Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Special Collections, University of Virginia 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
4 pages
