Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
Helen [Muir]
Transcription
New York, June 23, 1893.
Hello, sweet Midge,
Darling Helen:
You don't seem so far away now, for I got your beautiful little letter a little while ago. This evening. Mr. Johnson gave it to me at the Players' Club at suppertime. I'll be glad when you get big enough to go with me. I didn't think, you little sweetheart, that you would write so well. You must write to me when you are thinking about me when I am on the bright blue water like Paddy Grogan, and when I am in Scotland. When you have to cook on the fireplace it must seem like camping out. I'm glad you had a good time at Elfie Ames' birthday party, and that you got my flowers from Walden pond. Here is a rosebud and a fern that I picked this morning on a glacial rock on the shore of Long Island Sound. Tell Mama to take good care of her eyes and keep out of the sun, and tell Grandma to be careful not to work so much and then she will be better. Everybody that sees your picture and Wanda's say that they must be very good and charming girls, and I say, "Well, so they are. They are just as good as they can be." It is getting late. God and His good angels keep you, my darling. Goodnight, goodnight.
[John Muir]
00191
Location
New York
Date Original
1893 Jun 23
Source
Original letter dimensions: 30 x 18 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from [John Muir] to Helen [Muir], 1893 Jun 23." (1893). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 945.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/945
Resource Identifier
muir07_1148-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 07, Image 1148
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
