Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Emily [O. Pelton]
Transcription
23 ‘81 just after the birth of Wanda his eldest child
Martinez, March 28.
Dear Emily,
Our little one has come to us & we are all very happy mother father grandmother & grandfather. She was born three days ago, coming in the warm Sundays of the springtime with the full bloom of the fields & orchards & the singing of the birds. Heaven bless the small darling & make all her life as happy as the promise from every quarter is now. She is a tiny happy healthy dantily-featured lassie, cheecks & chin nose & mouth & brow as finely modeled & composed
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as if she were in her ripe rosy teens, & she looks about her with her bright blue eyes as if eager to know what kind of world she had arrived in. After a little you must come & see us in our quiet home. I was glad to hear from you after so long a silence I supposed you had vanished with your Carr cousin among the Couifers of Washington. I hope however that you will enjoy your old employment & friends in Yuba County. Remember me to the Knoxes & tell them that I will gladly give their scholars that lecture
we spoke of long ago whenever I have the time & good fortune to find myself at Brownsville. Remember me also to your friends in Strawberry Valley at whose house I spent so pleasant a time years ago. Let me hear from you often & believe me ever truly your friend
John Muir.
Location
Martinez, [Calif]
Circa Date
[1881] Mar 28
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Emily [O. Pelton], [1881] Mar 28." (1881). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 618.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/618
Resource Identifier
muir04_0463-md-1.pdf
File Identifier
Reel 04, Image 0462
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
Wisconsin Historical Society. 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
