Creator
Louie Strentzel Muir
Recipient
Mrs. Bidwell
Transcription
Dear Mrs. Bidwell The visit you have so kindly planned would I know be truly delightful, and my regret in being unable to accept at this time is all the [ ] because I have so long anticipated the pleasure of meeting you in your beautiful home. Although my baby is 14 months old she has never been away from home, and I dread the first trial of taking her very far, yet I do not dare to leave her even for a day to go only [to] San Francisco since she suffered so long with the whooping-cough. I have felt a constant terror [ ] the danger in travelling of being exposed to scarlet fever, diphtheria, ect. So I must delay all journeying until the little one can be [ ] with grandmother. Mr. Muir [[ ][ ] enjoy an excursion with Dr. [Parry]] up the [ ] [canyons], and says to tell you that this trip would be just to his mind, were it not for those “awful cherries” which here also are just in their prime and will not bear the least neglect. [We [all] hope that Dr. and Mrs. [Par] will make a visit on their way down to San [ ] and if so please ask them to tel. that we may meet them at the train. We shall all be glad to welcome you & Gen. B.] That this excursion would be one after his own heart and he [unlike] to [avail] himself of you to the extent of at least a [ ]. But like the [ ] [here] the [ ] [here] [are] also are in their first and [many] [other] things are in their [ ] and need [ ] [water] [ ] therefore [ ] [ ] there [ ] for [ ] neither [beeping] [ ] visit nor Polar Ice I [hope] however that this year will bring all things that are pleasant, save the Polar Ice and another [ ]time we shall be glad to welcome you and Gen. B whenever you can come to our lowland home. [Sincerely] Yours sincerely, Mrs. John Muir Come to our lowland home Lowland
Location
Unidentified
Circa Date
circa 1900
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, Louie Strentzel, "Letter from Mrs. John Muir [Louie Strentzel Muir] to Mrs. Bidwell, No date" (1900). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 6782.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/6782
Resource Identifier
No date Louie Muir to Mrs Bidwell
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
