Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
Helen [Muir]
Transcription
Home, Aug. 6, 1908
Darling Helen.
I sent you yesterday a box of peaches & a box of pears both picked from your own trees. The peaches not good, but with sugar & cream may be made somewhat edible under desert conditions. The best kinds are not yet ripe, & all are under sized from lack of sufficient thinning & lack of spring rains.The pears are the best on the ranch & will be fine in about ten days, after being wrapt in a blanket & kept under your bed in the dark.
Last week we had hot dismal deadly north wind weather now followed by cooling reviving sea winds. If all goes well I may be with you Saturday or Sunday. All the Harriman family except Cornelia expect to be in S.F. today or tomorrow on their way to their Oregon camp, & have cordially invited me to visit them there. I'll be very glad to know Desert Van Dyke & to see you all again especially thee my darling. Heaven keep you. So prays always
Your loving father.
Should the Harrimans prevail in getting me to go with them to their Klamath Camp, my visit to you will be delayed only a few days. But at present I intend to see you first of all. I have no end of other kind invitations as if all my friends had conspired to prevent me from doing any more writing.
Location
[Martinez, Calif.]
Date Original
1908 Aug 6
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from [John Muir] to Helen [Muir], 1908 Aug 6." (1908). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 5499.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/5499
Resource Identifier
muir17_0817-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 17, Image 0817
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
