Creator
Charlotte [H. Kellogg]
Recipient
[John Muir]
Transcription
[4]if cold. Do keep a big fire in your room.I am so disappointed to send you the handkerchiefs without the case I had ordered for them. When it was delivered Friday it was so small that you would have had to lose your temper (if you could) every time you tried to get them in and Vernon and I both threw it aside in disgust. That comes of living in the country! We hope to be in the little house[1][in margin: in February. early February perhaps. Are you foolishly keeping resolutions? Wont you break them and come again. soon?Always devotedly and with so many good wishesCharlieA kiss to her Uncle John from Jean]Carmel SundayA Merry Christmas to you there, and would that you were here!Jean and I came down last night to make the cabin ready for Vernon whom we hope to see tomorrow night. On the train yesterday after I had seated Jean and me she looked all about and05127
[2]said in her clear little way, "Now where will Uncle John sit?" Whatever was in her head I dont know, but she was certainly thinking of you and wishing you there.She is sleeping now after having been much bathed and oiled for while we were out trying to find some green things to make the cabin gay with she slipped[3]down a bank (fortunately a sand bank) into a tangle of brambles. Poor little mite, it must have seemed like a frightful precipice, her first one!She will hang up her stocking and thank heaven, expect Santa Claus! I understand that I am way behind the times in letting her believe in his jovial existence.I hope it is not so freezing in the morning at Martinez as it is here, but anyway it is bright and glorious
Location
Carmel [Calif.]
Circa Date
[1912 Dec]
Source
Original letter dimensions: 16.5 x 25 cm.
Recommended Citation
Kellogg, Charlotte H., "Letter from Charlotte [H. Kellogg] to [John Muir], [ca. 1912 Dec]." (1912). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 6438.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/6438
Resource Identifier
muir20_1567-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 20, Image 1567
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
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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
