Creator
Walter Brown
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
01500
[letterhead]
Phila’ May 20th 91
My Dear Brother Muir,
I beg your pardon for the delay in answering your message but I was away and I [illegible] you as follows Soon as I got home, “R.W. [Cary?] Kansas City but cannot tell the ammount of the interest due, I think about five hundred, can let you know in two weeks, [Cary?] is now away.” Why I cannot tell
[letterhead]
2 J.M.
the ammounts is this, Mr [Cory?] is my Special partner in this Company and some other things and as his father owns the Mortgage I have him attend to the rents taxes & its general care and as I have not had a statement for some months I cannot tell how it is exactly. Mr [Cory?] is now in New Mexico but will return to Kansas City about the first of June when he will [write?] me the information you want.
01500
[letterhead]
3 J.M.
I am having an awful hard time to get things going here with this company but time will bring things all straight and I will then make your investment a profitable one to you. Please give my best regards to all of the folks, I hope you are all well. Joanna and children are pretty well now,
Very Truly Walter Brown
Location
… Philadelphia, PA
Date Original
1891 May 20
Source
Original letter dimensions: 27.5 x 21 cm.
Recommended Citation
Brown, Walter, "Letter from Walter Brown to John Muir, 1891 May 20." (1891). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 77.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/77
Resource Identifier
muir07_0153-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 07, Image 0153
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
