Creator
Mother [Ann Gilrye Muir]
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
Portage June 18th 1893
Dear John
Your two letters from New York have been very gladly received It must be very gratifying to you to find so many friends and to be able to visit so many historic places that we have talked and been reading about so often I am glad your health holds out so good admidst so much visiting
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we are having very hot dry weather with high winds, but at such times we can stay within doors We have had a visit from Anna and Jessie Reid they are both now in Chicago where Mr. Waterman would meet them and there they would all go home together after they were tired of the Fair We are all well as usual here, and are very thankful for the many blessings we daily enjoy I hope your visit to Scotland and the dear home of our youth will
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be very pleasant to you, but I think there will be but few friends left to remember any thing about us I have not had any news from California since you left, but I intend to write to some of them soon I hope you will meet Keith in Scotland as you expect and I hope you will have a pleasant visit where ever you may go I will be very glad to hear from you when ever you can have time to write
Affectionately
Mother
Location
Portage, [Wisc]
Date Original
1893 Jun 18
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 25 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, Ann Gilrye, "Letter from Mother [Ann Gilrye Muir] to John Muir, 1893 Jun 18." (1893). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 931.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/931
Resource Identifier
muir07_1092-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 07, Image 1092
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
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
