Creator
Wanda [Muir]
Recipient
[John Muir]
Transcription
Martinez, Calif.
July 10, 1896
Dear Papa:
We received your letter from Hot Springs yesterday and just a few minutes ago your other letter came with the flowers and mica in it and the picture at the top. It must be a most wonderful and beautiful place where you are and I hope some day that we may see it too. I hope that it is a good deal cooler where you are than it is here for it has been dreadfully hot for a long time. Everybody says that it is trying to make up for the cold weather last spring, but I think that it has done that already and that it is time to stop.
Three of the letters that we wrote you, two to Portage and one to New York, came back here. I will send them to you now so you will know what we were doing then too.
When are you coming home Papa? It seems such a very long time since you left us at the Martinez station and it is so strange for us to think how many different places you have seen since then and of all that has happened in that short time. We received your letter which told about Grandma Muir's death, oh Papa, how I wish that I could have seen and known her.
We have been over to see Aunt Margaret very often. She is feeling much better than at first, but this weather is hard for her. We are all well. Helen does not mind the heat at all this summer.
Early this morning we walked over to Uncle David's and than we went up on the big east hill. We enjoyed the walk very much but the grass and flowers are all dry now. The corn and beans that we planted are growing finely.
Write to us as often as you can.
Lovingly,
Wanda
Location
Martinez, Calif
Date Original
1896 Jul 10
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, Wanda, "Letter from Wanda [Muir] to [John Muir], 1896 Jul 10." (1896). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 800.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/800
Resource Identifier
muir09_0298-trans.tif
File Identifier
Reel 09, Image 0298
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
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
Muir/Hanna Family. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Pages
1 page
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
