Creator
Mother [Ann Gilrye Muir]
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
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about myself while I am just getting well in good earnest, and when you come home I expect you’ll laugh at me if I say I have ever been sick. Annie and I have been at Fort Sealle attending a convention, which also testifies to the truth of my statement, for you know I have been so nervious that I have not wanted to see even a little company, and there I met and visited with more friend than I can count, Trusting that you are very well and with much love, I close, Joanna.
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Portage Oct. 1879.
Dear John
Your very welcome and interesting letters from Alaska have been received I expect you will find this letter at San Fran when you arrive there, about [in margin: 512] the first of Nov. Perhaps you will then, be able to say when we may expect you in Portage. Sarah has met with a very sad trial indeed in the loss of her only son. In June George was nineteen years of age [deleted: and [2]
Your father is still in Canada he writes often, saying he is well and comfortable. Anna is not teaching at present, she went to Phillips and staid a month with Mary and Joanna returned home with her, having spent the summer there [ her?] health has improved very much indeed – She was delighted with the pine woods – and she thinks Mary has a very cozy happy home — The girls are spend- ing this week at Fox lake attending a Baptist convention Trusting that the everliving and ever loving Spirit will continue to watch over you for good at all times Affectionately Mother
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Dear John: -
I have been wanting to write to you for some time but feared a letter might not reach you, in fact I suspect one or two of mine have already been lost, however here you are away off among the Indians and the ice feasting your eyes and soul on grandeur [deleted: and] while your ears and toes are pinching with the cold. Well hurry up and get all you can into your note book and your mind and then come home and give us some. [ Now?] I’m going to talk
on his birth day] and on his birthday he went with others to bathe in the Fox River and was drowned how very sad, how we all miss him
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Location
Portage, [Wisc]
Circa Date
1879 Oct [ ]
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 25 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, Ann Gilrye, "Letter from Mother [Ann Gilrye Muir] to John Muir, 1879 Oct." (1879). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 506.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/506
Resource Identifier
muir03_1169-md-1.pdf
File Identifier
Reel 03, Image 1168
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
