Creator
D[avid] G. Muir
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
[1]
[letterhead]
Portage, Wis Mch 4 1891
Dear Bro John
Yours of June 13 was duly recd & right glad was I to hear from you It seems almost impossible for me to write letters to relations or friends because I have to write so many business letters. Glad to learn of the good health of yourself & family & I can partly imagine your increased responsibilities & cares. We are all well & squeezing along determined to succeed if strong will & [illegible] and application will do it. Mother’s health is good. Very much better than last winter. She goes out considerable & seems to be contented & happy & has plenty. Sarah’s health is also very much improved in health during the last year. She has no
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money of any [illegible] except what she earns. She boards Mother Annie Joanna & her three children & a young lady who attends school & receive sufficient therefore to to get a living & her clothes also Grace’s who helps her do housework Joanna did want to find other quarters but I persuaded her to try and live with Sarah for the sake of helping her They all live in my house for which I charge her no rent & keep telling her not to consider it a debt I guess Annies money is all used she makes considerable money by selling fish scale jewelry to the ladies. [Manufactured? by a Miss Moore her health is very fair & Mother helps her when she is in need. Joanna is all right Walter Sends her plenty of money so she pays her way in no stinted manner. Walter & his Bank has passed the [crises?] & is making money, with a bright prospect.
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[letterhead]
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Portage, Wis. ……………………………….189…..
as for John Reid & Maggie you know all about them. You wrote me to send [them?] some money last year but we were very hard pushed ourselves all of last year. the hardest I ever was. Ever since Jno Reid left Portage I have paid his life insurance for Maggie’s sake in case anything might happen to him, which with some other things I paid for him amounts to about $1000.00 beside this when he wrote me in desperation in Dec 1889 I [borrowed?] $500.00 & sent it to him. I never could decide whether to charge this to you or not because you wrote me not to send money for the land but for Maggies necessities
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So I’ll leave that for you to decide. I think I’ve answered all of your questions. My three children & grandson & son in law are all well & prospering finely We have rented our other house to Mrs Muirs cousin; we board with them & have all the room we want & Mrs Muir works in the store with Mr We are getting things in better shape increasing sales & if we have no bad luck, & times improve we hope to live through it. paying interest on a large sum is what ret[illegible] us but we have excellent health & are willing to work & do when we can afford it we intend to see Cal & all of our friends. Our kindest regards to yourself & family.
Affectionately your brother
D. G Muir.
Write soon again.
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Location
Portage, Wis
Date Original
1891 Mar 4
Source
Original letter dimensions: 23 x 14.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, David G., "Letter from D[avid] G. Muir to John Muir, 1891 Mar 4." (1891). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 65.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/65
Resource Identifier
muir07_0108-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 07, Image 0107
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
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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
3 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
