Creator
Louie Strentzel
Recipient
[John Muir]
Transcription
421
00881
Tuesday morning Jan. 27, 1880.
Dear John,
A glad Welcome Home to you! — though I have but few minutes in which to say it, and you are not yet in clear sight but it is the best I can do. Only just now, looking over a stray copy of Sundays Call, I found your name in the “Oregon’s” passenger list, but there was nothing of it in the Bulletin. Mother is still too sick for father to leave her, so we can not go to meet
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you, but you do not need that to assure you how glad we are of your coming. I send you the trunk key as you may want it before coming here. Send a Telegram so we can meet you at the Martinez train. The 3 and 4 o’clock trains are still running. In great haste for the express has left, and there is only this 11 o’clock mail a day. With the hope of seeing your face in a little while,
Faithfully Yours
Louie Strentzel
Location
[Alhambra, Calif]
Date Original
1880 Jan 27
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20 x 25 cm.
Recommended Citation
Strentzel, Louie, "Letter from Louie Strentzel to [John Muir], 1880 Jan 27." (1880). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 513.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/513
Resource Identifier
muir04_0022-md-1.pdf
File Identifier
Reel 04, Image 0021
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
