Creator

Ann Gilrye Muir

Creator

[Ann G. Muir]

Recipient

John Muir

Transcription



531

01105

Portage May 23d 1883

Dear John

I hope this will find you and your family enjoying the blessing of good health — I have not enjoyed the pleasure of hearing much about your part of the world as I have seen very little of Sarah as yet, but I expect to have a good visit with her bye & bye, and hear all about her visit to you I thought she looked much better when she came home, than when she left home I hope it may continue -

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Thanks for the beautiful Views of the Valley and surroundings you so kindly sent me. I like them very much – and they have been much admired by other – So you are a staid home body now – with a good many cares – and a great many comforts – Do you not some times wish for an opportunity to climb to some mountain top – where you have not yet been – David still continues to spend his life in that store with seldom a days vacation and not always quite well and his wifes health is not very good either – Carrie is teaching this year for the first time –

Annie is again engaged in the store – she likes that kind of work much better than teaching We are having a very cold backward spring which causes the farmers to complain not a little – but we have not been visited with any very severe storm such as have swept over many places arround us – It seems a long time – since I have had a letter from you – but will hope to hear from you soon With much love to you dear John, and to your wife and little Daughter

I am sincerely yours Mother

Location

Portage [Wisc.]

Date Original

1883 May 23

Source

Original letter dimensions: 20 x 25 cm.

Resource Identifier

muir04_1063-md-1.pdf

File Identifier

Reel 04, Image 1062

Collection Identifier

Online finding aid for the microform version of the John Muir Correspondence http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0w1031nc

Copyright Statement

Some letters written to John Muir may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.

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

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