Creator
Maggie [Margaret Muir Reid]
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
01121
Crete, Neb, Dec 12th, 1883.
My Dear Brother John
I write to acknowledge the recept of a large nicely bound, geography looking Book, Entitled Notes and Observations made in the cruise of the Corwin in Alaska by your Own Self, & others. It is very interesting indeed. We expect that it was lent by you. although you did not
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mentioned it. Many thanks John Annie is improving a little we think. Dan seems to think her symptoms better. he has not been here to see her except once shortly after she came. The pain in her side has troubled her today but is better now. We are still having beautiful weather something like your winter weather, [hour?] frost in the mornings & warm sunshinny day’s. Annie enjoys it very much and keeps out of doors
as much as possible. the rest of us are all pretty well. hoping you are all enjoying the same blessing. Kiss Wanda for me. and now as it is bedtime I will close with much love to all Louie. Wanda. & yourself, I am lovingly,
Maggie [R.?]
Remember me to the Doctor & Mrs Strentzel.
Location
Crete, Neb
Date Original
1883 Dec 12
Source
Original letter dimensions: 16 x 25 cm.
Recommended Citation
Reid, Margaret Muir, "Letter from Maggie [Margaret Muir Reid] to John Muir, 1883 Dec 12." (1883). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 773.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/773
Resource Identifier
muir04_1163-md-1.pdf
File Identifier
Reel 04, Image 1162
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
