Creator
Louie Strentzel Muir
Recipient
Jeannette W. Donner
Transcription
Suisun, Dec. 26/99 Dear Mrs. Muir, As the dear old Saints and our Saviours birthday has passed, I wish to thank you sincerely and heartily for your kind remembrance. Books are something I always appreciate and I am getting quite proud of my little library composed of my dear mother’s books, some of papa’s gifts, and yours. Tennyson is one of my favorite authors and poets. We are taking up Shakespeare every evening now. [ ] he we means my father, stepmother, and myself. Papa understands him thoroughly and explains very clearly. We are a happy family, as Papa married a very sweet lovely woman. Grandma wishes to thank you very kindly for your remembrance. She is very well and has improved wonderfully. She has a splendid appetite, and gets around quite spryly, a [great] deal better than she has for some time. I hope you are feeling better, and will continue to grow better. I enclose in this letter two little doilies, they are my first attempt at embroidery, and I wished you to have them. I am beginning to do a good deal of writing lately, and shall continue doing so. Please thank Wanda for me in lieu of her nice present. Wishing you a Happy New Year. I remain, Respectfully, Jeannette W. Donner P.S. Please tell Wanda I shall write immediately to her. J.D.
Location
Suisun City, CA
Date Original
1899-12-26
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Donner, Jeannette W., "Letter from Jeannette W. Donner to Mrs. Muir [Louie Stentzel Muir], 1899 Dec 26" (1899). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 6740.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/6740
Resource Identifier
1899 Dec 26 Jeannette W Downer
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
The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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, see https://www.pacific.edu/university-libraries/find/holt-atherton-special-collections/fees-and-forms-
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
