Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Charlotte] Hoffman
Transcription
Martinez, Apr 28, 1908
Dear Miss Hoffman
I heartily congratulate you on your happy marriage & so will Helen & Wanda as soon as they read your letter. Wanda is in the Roosevelt Hospital but is now much better & expects to be home in a week or two, Her baby boy is fat & rosy & of course a prodigy. Helen is much better but expects to stay on the Mohave desert near Daggett, California (her address) for year or two. She is very cheery merry & hopeful & greatly enjoys the desert weather & scenery. I'm better too after a severe illness Grippe, grief, worry etc which
came nigh making an end of me. But the Scotch are hard to kill & the neighbors who expected to bury me are astonished.
The Old home garden on the hill is one glorious mass of bloom with no word or sign of decay or trouble may your life dear friend be like it all through life's journey.
My cousin at Dunbar always inquires for you in her letters & will be very glad to get a word from you direct.
I have not yet seen your Professor's Darwin book & no wonder - Have done no real work all winter but am beginning to try to write again. Remember me to Mr Kellogg, lucky man, & believe me dear Charlotte with warm regards
ever faithfully yours John Muir
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1908 Apr 28
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Charlotte] Hoffman, 1908 Apr 28." (1908). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 5379.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/5379
Resource Identifier
muir17_0473-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 17, Image 0473
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
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley. 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
Pages
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
