Creator
Joanna M[uir] Brown
Recipient
[John Muir]
Transcription
Portage, Wis.,
Jan, 3, 1895.
Dear brother John:
Your generous and very acceptable New Year's gift came safely and reached me just in time to cheer the close of New Year's day. I cannot express my appreciation of your brotherly kindness; for these past few years, and especially the last, have been more heavily fraught with difficulty and trouble to us than any one, not knowing the circumstances, can possibly understand. Walter's long, hard, unsuccessful struggle, with none of the cheer and relaxation of home life, begins to tell very perceptibly on even his strong will and unflinching spirit, and I was glad to cheer him with your word of remembrance to him.
Such life experiences as these are, in their effect on our characters, like the glaciers on the features of the Sierras -- grinding and chiseling out in one place, and building up and developing in another. And as the great master builder of both human character and mountain scenery fully understands his work, and the high results to be attained, we do well to submit ourselves to His Moulding, even though we feel sometimes that we shall be ground out of existence in the process.
We are enjoying your book more than I can tell. Even little Bessie exclaims at the musical sweetness of some of its passages, and the call for Uncle John's book comes oftener than for any other.
I am glad you had so sociable a dinner party for Christmas. Ours was very quiet. Sarah was not well and we did not go down there as usual. But I went down in the evening and Mother seemed in excellent spirits.
The children unite with me in love to you and the other Cal. friends.
Affectionately yours,
Joanna M[uir] Brown
Location
Portage, Wis
Date Original
1895-01-03
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 13.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Brown, Joanna Muir, "Letter from Joanna M[uir] Brown to [John Muir], 1895 Jan 3." (1895). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 6957.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/6957
Resource Identifier
muir08_0691-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 08, Image 0691
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
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
