Creator
D[ avid ] G. Muir
Recipient
Dan[iel H. Muir]
Transcription
[letterhead]
PORTAGE, WIS., Jun 2 1882
Dear Bro Dan
Yours enclosing D[illegible] for $115.00 and note for $308. is recd I did not expect so much as I thought you had used part of that $100. on improving my place, You may sell my farm also if you can at a price that will make me whole [illegible] [& all?] You may send me my [illegible] contract & Tad receipt what Jno Reid left with you for if you should sell the land it would have to come here for Katie’s Signature. Father is here awaiting matters
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return from the South to take him & Joanna he does not dare to go down town & hardly out of doors he is very much weaker than he was two months ago. his limb is growing weaker & more painful it even troubles him in the night but he looks red & healthy in the face; all of the folks are usualy well here Thank to Emma for her Photo We had a very Merry Christmas at mothers just Galloways & my family left & we had to eat & cut up for the whole of you. We have had a very good [falls?] trade. We had had the b[illegible] this fall more than the others Still we are not happy & perhaps never will be Remember [me?] to the children & Emma
D [illegible] [illegible]
Location
Portage, Wisc.
Date Original
1882 Jun 2
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, David G., "Letter from D[ avid ] G. Muir to Dan[iel H. Muir] , 1882 Jun 2." (1882). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 708.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/708
Resource Identifier
muir04_0855-md-1.pdf
File Identifier
Reel 04, Image 0854
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
The Huntington 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
