Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Helen [Muir]
Transcription
[letterhead]
New York, June 15 1893
My own little darling Helen. I am very lonesome without you but I have your pretty picture & Wanda’s & I look at it very many times. You must be very careful not to play in the hot sun, & not to eat too much fruit to make you sick for papa wants his little girl to be happy & well always. Little Elfie I suppose keeps you from being lonesome. She is a funny little wriggle wiggle & I hope behaves well. You must not let her go out too much in the hot sun, for that is very bad for dogs as well as for people. There are many dogs in New York but none funnier or wigglier than Elfie. Here is a beautiful & famous flower that all good people love The Alpine Edel[illegible] from
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Switzerland. Mrs Sargent gave it to me as a great compliment & I want you to show it to mamma & grandma & Wanda & then lay it away carefully & keep it for me & give back to me when I get home. I am going to Scotland soon & then Ill send you some Scotch heather & some other nice things Everybody is good to papa & I am very well only I keep wanting to see you, Willie went to Scotland & is waiting for me there. I’m not going to stop very long so you must not feel lonesome. I liked the letter you sent me when I was in Chicago It was very sweet & I want you to write another. I suppose you got the nice flowers from Walden Pond They are for your own little self to keep, but you may give one or two to Wanda. And I suppose too that you got the pictures I bought in Concord Papa will not be away very long. Goodbye sweet darling Soon Ill write you another letter Goodbye my darling goodbye. Kiss Wanda & mamma for [marginalia]
Location
…New York
Date Original
1893 Jun 15
Source
Original letter dimensions: 23 x 14.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Helen [Muir], 1893 Jun 15." (1893). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 926.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/926
Resource Identifier
muir07_1074-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 07, Image 1074
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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, click here to view the Holt-Atherton Special Collections policies.
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
