Recipient
J.E. Calkins
Transcription
Martinez Sep. 15, 1908. My dear Mr. Calkins, I got home a few days ago from a long visit with my friends the Harrimans at Pelican Bay in the Klamath & have had a fine reviving time & have also got some writing done up there on that much talked of autobiography. Dictated a 1000 or 1500 pages of M.S., mostly a miserable confused mess however that will have to be rewritten again and again. I also spent a month with the Sierra Club in the Kern Cañon country & made a short excursion to Yosemite. I also rewrote & enlarged Stickeen & sent it to Houghton Mifflin & Co. It will be published as a little book early next spring. Am now pegging away at another Yosemite book & have several others in mind which may see the light some day if I live long enough. Helen is still at Daggett with the Van Dykes bravely making her way toward sound health. I fondly hope she will within another year or so be her own hale merry self again. I have often thought of you these eventful days & months & am very glad to hear that Mrs Calkins is well again & that you are snugly settled in your own home among orange & lemon groves. I would like nothing better than to be with you free from all business & care except book work, & I hope I may be able to make you a long visit at least. Months & months after I last saw you were spent in settling family affairs I traded all the old ranch belonging to Helen to her sister Wanda for other property that would not require so much personal attention. The big house & five acres about it is all that Helen now owns here. Still her other property requires a good deal of attention together with my own, & my literary work is often sadly interrupted. I hope to be able to trade or sell off still more of our load & then with health & good luck get something worth while off my hands before dark. With kindest regards & best wishes for you all, I am ever faithfully yours, John Muir
Location
Martinez, California
Date Original
1908-09-15
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to J.E. Calkins September 15, 1908" (1908). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 7056.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/7056
File Identifier
Muir to JE Calkins
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
