Creator
Helen [Muir]
Recipient
[John Muir]
Transcription
Daggett, Cal. May 24 -
Dear Papa -
I received your letter enclosing the two money orders - thank you. This is a grand warm morning, 90° now & by noon it will be higher so Im feeling well. Unfortunately Wanda dont enjoy it as much as I do but she is steadily getting better I think. But your plan for her to stay on the desert several months wont work. She is so different from me & cant enjoy just [living?] as I do, & then too while she feels something of the desert's fasination she dont love it as I do. Where I could learn to live content & care-free & be just a little girl Wanda wouldnt be happy - she cant help it - she's simply different. And then she is leaving her two boys - the big one & the little one. We're having a good visit now & it is surely doing her much good, but she intends going to Los Angeles to visit some of her College friends in about two weeks, & from there home. I'll go on getting well & sunburnt - loving my desert & feeling more thankful than ever for my gift of being able to be happy. I think we're going to
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have plenty of warm weather now - its nearing June.
Mr Van Dyke got home from San Bernardino yesterday afternoon. Alice Manson sent me more dear flowers by him. Sweet peas & jassimine that make me think of home.
The Funks are well & send their kind regards. They are so good to me.
I must go now & give this to Dick to mail for No. 3.
Ever yours
Helen
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Location
Daggett, Calif.
Circa Date
[1908] May 24
Source
Original letter dimensions: 22.5 x 20 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, Helen, "Letter from Helen [Muir] to [John Muir], [1908 ?] May 24." (1908). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 5431.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/5431
Resource Identifier
muir17_0609-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 17, Image 0609
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
