Creator
S[arah] M[uir] Galloway
Recipient
[John Muir & Louie Strentzel Muir]
Transcription
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Portage, Wis.
Dec 18 / 94
My dear Brother and Sister:
another year of the sunshine and shadow that life brings to us have passed, and in our hearts we are reaching out to each other with the same unchanging love, and glad good wishes. May a renewed supply of all that is good and best in life rejoice your hearts, and may all the dear ones about you be blessed with health and strength to enjoy the blessings as they come.
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I think we have great cause for Thankfulness that during the trying years through which we have been passing that we have all been blessed with so many of the privileges and comforts of life.
Though we are scattered and so far apart and cannot touch each others hand, we can send our thoughts over the distance and receive the answering greeting and so heart almost touches heart.
We have heard from Jessie since her visit with you all
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and she tells us what a fine, capable, helpful girl Wanda has grown to be, also so strong and well and of bright little laughing Helen, what treasures of comfort they will be to you both, also to Grandma. I send them love and good wishes. I imagine them scampering among the hills sometimes and coming home with hand full of the beautiful things growing all about. We have been taking great pleasure in reading your book John. You take us almost there, to see the things just as you have seen
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[in margin: I send a little Box for Wanda and Helen along with this letter.]
and if I only had strength I could scramble along with you with right good will. You remember Grandma Galloway said, I will see all God's wonderful works, but it would be after she had passed from this life, so I think it will be so with me, I could not do much in the way of tramping now, but I can read and enjoy the results of your tramping, and it is grand.
Mother enjoys it exceedingly and talks of the love you show for everything you write about. I hope Grandma
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is well, remember me to her, and give her my kindest regards. Things go on about as usual here, that girls are still in the store in their old places. Joanna has not been well for some time but is bettern than she has been, the children are well. Ethel and Bessie are attending school Bernice at home her Mothers company and messenger. a deer little witch who comes in to see us very often and tells us how she loves us and so on. We have been having lovely weather for some time, so mild for the season. Trusting that you are all well I will close wishing you all a happy Christmas and joyous New Year
Lovingly S. M. Galloway
Location
Portage, Wisc.
Date Original
1894-12-18
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20 x 13 cm.
Recommended Citation
Galloway, Sarah Muir, "Letter from S[arah] M[uir] Galloway to [John Muir & Louie Strentzel Muir], 1894 Dec 18." (1894). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 6943.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/6943
Resource Identifier
muir08_0635-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 08, Image 0635
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
3 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
