Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Helen [Muir]
Transcription
Home May 24, 1908Darling Helen.I'm so glad you are steadily growing better, cough - that dismal sound gone & side pains passing away. Wanda too getting better & beginning to get rid of miserable worry & care in the calm of the desert.Hetch Hetchy is safe for at least a generation or so & we hope forever. In the meantime S. F. is to have Lake Eleanor for a reservoi[r?] under many restrictions, & in no case is H.H. to be touched until Eleanor & Cherry Creek sources are developed to utmost capacity. Which will not be in our days.Yesterday & today north winds brought the first very hot weather of the season The garden is still glorious tho the roses are past prime except the sweetbria[r?] The geraniums make a most exuberant show with escholtzia, broom, calistemon sweet pea salvia etc. The big agave beside the Deodar is sending up a huge asparagus shoot to make lots of food and fuss for humming birds. The tall Arbor vitae is full of honeysuckle bloom almost to the top, & the Romneya thicket is like a snowbank. The trees all look fine & promise plenty of fruit, especially peaches. A lot of quails have been roosting in the big rose-clad pine, & I think at least one pair have a nest in it under the rose, & a pair of Orioles in the top branches. A pair of sickle-bill thrushes have been here all spring but I have not yet found their nest, & a few saucy English sparrows have their nests equally well concealed. I can't find Millie's nest either tho she now comes every morning for milk soon the family will be big enough to travel & she will bring them to me, for she likes me & is now as tame as old Tom.Last Wednesday I had breakfast before six, & the engineers of a long west bound freight seemed, as they were crossing the viaduct, to think you had got back home, I suppose from seeing the smoke of my fire. Anyhow they toowhit-toowhooed & cockadoodledooed almost all the way from station to tunnelTake good care of poor Wanda & try to make her forget ranches ranching & moneymaking & be her own dear self again.Ever affectionatelyyour father John Muir
Location
[Martinez, Calif.]
Date Original
1908 May 24
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Helen [Muir], 1908 May 24." (1908). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 5430.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/5430
Resource Identifier
muir17_0605-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 17, Image 0605
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
