Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Louie [Strentzel Muir]
Transcription
02107
Portage Jun 17. 96
Dear Louie.
Mother continues to hold the gain she made aftter her first prostrating attack--eats--pretty well & suffers only at time from shortness of breath but is still very wek & we are far from confident that she will even be able to walk the streets again through we hope she may. If she is gaining from day to day it is so little as to be scarce appreceable
We telegraphed for Dan but he could not come for want of money to buy a ticket! I sent it yesterday & we expect him tomorrow or next day & then he will probably stay a week or two & Mother will have the best of care & permit me
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affair somehow.
I expected a letter from Wanda or Helen or some of you ere this. a note came from Maggie this morning & perhaps I may get a letter this afternoon. When Dan comes Mother will have six of her eight children with her. How Wanda & Helen would enjoy the Joanna children & Helen Hand. & the birds that throng the mulberry tree at the corner of the house. Love to you all
(Dont let my notes burn)
John Muir
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to go on to Cambridge.
I mean to start tomorrow if Mother is as well & hopeful as she is today. I fear I may not have money enough on account of unlooked for expenses, so you had better send $100.00 to Sarah with which to pay the return railway fares of Dan, Mary & her Helen. & a little more for Joanna who is sadly discouraged. Get a Wells Fargo note from Sherman, payable to Mrs David Galloway
Portage,
Wisconsin
This also is the P O address
I feel fairly well considering the care Ive had & hope to get through the Harvard
Location
Portage [Wisc.]
Date Original
1896 Jun 17
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20 x 25 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1896 Jun 17." (1896). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 780.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/780
Resource Identifier
muir09_0216-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 09, Image 0216
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
Copyrighted
Copyright Statement
The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission to publish or exhibit them, see https://www.pacific.edu/university-libraries/find/holt-atherton-special-collections/fees-and-forms-.html
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.
Copyright Holder
Muir-Hanna Trust
Copyright Date
1984
Pages
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
