Creator

John Muir

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.

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 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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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

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