Creator
Joanna [Muir Brown]
Recipient
[John Muir]
Transcription
[4]even though her eyes are dim with age-We have had an exceptionally comfortable winter but today the north wind is howling quite savagely as if it meant to remind us that winter is not over by any means-The girls unite in sending love to you and to all the others of the familyAffectionately yourSister JoannaJan 12 1914[1] Jan 12 14622 Hawthorn Ave.Ginter ParkRichmond VaMy dear Bro. John:-I write to thank you for your cordial New Years letter and for your generous New Years gift, Both were thoroughly appreciated as they went a long way toward making our holidays pleasant: I do not mean that we spent it in celebrating for we have laid it aside toward Bernice's wedding05675
2preparations.You will be surprised that the baby is to leave us first but the usual order of things is often reversed; It is too bad that it should be so in this case, but it seems that the older girls have not time to marry on account of their fathers failure in business, and so leaving everything on them I hope it may all be over-ruled for good in some way but it is hard to see how it can be -[3]Bernice is to marry a well-to do famer from one of the rich countries of Pennsylvania, they have been acquainted ever since they have been children in Philadelphia, He comes of a fine family, his father too is a wealthy farmer, His old grand mother is eighty seven years old and loves Bernice almost as if she were her own, She wrote her a Christmas letter, which was perfectly well written
Location
Richmond, Va.
Date Original
1914 Jan 12
Source
Original letter dimensions: 16.5 x 26 cm.
Recommended Citation
Brown, Joanna Muir, "Letter from Joanna [Muir Brown] to [John Muir], 1914 Jan 12." (1914). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 6465.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/6465
Resource Identifier
muir22_0063-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 22, Image 0063
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
