Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Mother [Ann Gilrye Muir]
Transcription
[4]
here also all four in a ring-a love-ring of steadfast old lovers around this one little love. I want to carry her to you at once, but though that may not be I feel sure that you will see her before long. In the meantime dear mother send her your love & blessing & forward this letter to father that so our little darling may have his blessing also. Louie bravely endured her sore mother pains twelve hours of them without scarce an audible groan. & has already forgotten them all in her joy.
Every lovingly your son John Muir
00979
[1]
Martinez, California, March 27, 1881.
Dear Mother,
Our dear little baby has come to us, She was born just two days ago, March 25 at 2 o’clock in the afternoon, eleven months & eleven days after our marriage, and we are all very happy, father, mother, grandfather, & grandmother, & I am sure that you will join in our joy. Our darling first born is a tiny healthy happy [illegible] featured lassie not at all full & cumpish like most of the baby gorblings that I have seen. She looks about her
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[2]
with her bright blue eyes as steadily as if she were a year old instead of only two days. And her cheecks & brow & mouth & nose & dimpled chin are as finely modellest & composed as if she were in her ripe teens. Heaven bless her & make all her life as happy & loveful as the promise in every quarter is now. The weather is warm & tranquil & the sun is beaming lovingly on the green hills & blossoming orchards about our home, & the larks & linnets are singing in full spring time chorus. How beautiful the world is, & how beautiful is the time of the coming of our little love. You remember
[3]
that it was bloom time of the year when we were married, & our little bloom bud baby has arrived in the midst of the richest bloom of the orchards. The cherry trees in particular are one mass of white petals looking as if laden with fleecy snow, while the purple & rose flowers of the quince & peach & apple trees, & the white of the plum is hardly less showy & lavishly abundant. A happier pair of grand parents than the two Strentzels never was since the beginning of the baby begetting period on earth. How glad we would be to have her Muir grandmother & father
Location
Martinez, California
Date Original
1881 Mar 27
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20 x 25 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Mother [Ann Gilrye Muir], 1881 Mar 27." (1881). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 617.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/617
Resource Identifier
muir04_0459-md-1.pdf
File Identifier
Reel 04, Image 0458
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, click here to view the Holt-Atherton Special Collections policies.
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.
Copyright Holder
Muir-Hanna Trust
Copyright Date
1984
Pages
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
