Creator
Mother [Ann Gilrye Muir]
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
[4]Dear John I would like to meet you once more, and I would like to meet your wife – but I know that a very great distance lies between us – and I also know that you will come to meet us all whenever a favourable time presents itself. I shall be happy to have a letter from your wife and to know her better – All the family with their families are well at present – and hoping that Gods blessing will ever rest upon you and your household I am Lovingly Mother00952[1]Portage Octr. 6th 1880Dear JohnI yesterday received your letter of Septr 27th informing me of your safe arrival home, and well satisfied with your travels in Alaska – which news pleased me very much Last month I mailed a letter for you to Fort Wrangel thinking you would find it when you returned from the north — but I perceive by yours, you did not. When Joanna returned home from Hamilton her father and Mr Brown accompanied her Your father remained here about six weeks – but is now at —
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[2]Phillips with Joanna — his health is good – but very lame indeed, being quite unable to walk accross a room without his crutches They were quite anxious to have me move to Phillips too – but for the last nine years I have lived in a brick house near the High School – and it seems so like home to me [illegible] that I decided to remain in Portage during the winter – you know I always feel inclined to be stationary wherever my lot may be cast – so Annie will remain with me for the present – as she is the only one left to me now – I think it rather –[3]-amusing that Mary should think of naming her boy after his two grand mothers – which is Wheller [Gilrye?] Hand John Reid is at present at Crete Neb. but is expected home soon for the purpose of taking the family to a home there I feel very sorry indeed to think of them all leaving Portage — Margt. is sarcely able to talk about it – but some think that the change might benefit her health – Lately I had a letter from Emma from Lincoln Neb. she says they have a very pleasant home there, but Daniel had been a good deal of the summer at his farm – some miles distant
Location
Portage, [Wisc]
Date Original
1880 Oct 6
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20 x 25.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, Ann Gilrye, "Letter from Mother [Ann Gilrye Muir] to John Muir, 1880 Oct 6." (1880). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 584.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/584
Resource Identifier
muir04_0330-md-1.pdf
File Identifier
Reel 04, Image 0329
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
