Creator
Ellie Mosgrove
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
[4]
to do it alone. It would be a great experience. No packer afoot with a few pack [arrivals?]. This is a day dream. Why do you Miss, Miss us? We are still of the mountains visiting the city. We are looking forward to October and your coming. I hope some day I may know your girls. Marian joins me in great regard.
Sincerely yours
Ellie Mosgrove
Sept. 28, 1902.
[1]
9-28-'02
My dear Mr. Muir:
I return with many thanks and added interest your account of the clock. The family have laughed over my enthusiasm in regard to the clock and have thought [illegible] [illegible] many of its workings. they are now silenced. We were perfectly delighted to see and have Mr. Gannett
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drive with us the other night. How we wished you were with us as we looked over the photo-graphs. You spoil one of Dr. Spencer's best jokes by calling Miss Delany one of the gray Rock Jua[illegible]e. The joke lay in there being but three of us. The guitar is the fourth We had the guitar mended for the trip next year through
[3]
the Tuolumne, Mono Lake and all of that district into the Yosemite. We want our own pack and one packer you said you could give us the name of a man outside the valley who would do it. We won't go till the first of July so I hope you can join us. That would be too good to be true. We three girls would like
Location
place unknown
Date Original
1902 Sep 28
Source
Original letter dimensions: 17.5 x 26.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Mosgrove, Ellie, "Letter from Ellie Mosgrove to John Muir, 1902 Sep 28." (1902). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 4743.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/4743
Resource Identifier
muir12_0674-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 12, Image 0674
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
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
