Creator

Ann G. Muir

Creator

[Ann G. Muir]

Recipient

Dan[iel H. Muir]

Transcription

[4]

The boundaries of Portage are enlarged year by year so we now have quite a city and we think it is a very beautiful city The children of the Baptist Sunday School have a Pic Nick today, they have a sail on the River to a piece of land some miles from home, Anne of course is with them We are all in usual health and hope the time will come when we will meet again. I close with kindest regards to Emma and the children & yourself

Affectionately Mother

[1]

Portage Augt. 17th 1893

Dear Danl.

Your letter of July 10th was gladly received I would have written to you sooner, but thought I would wait until Sarah came home, she is now a grandma and has been many weeks in the country, as our home has been like a ship without a Rudder driven with the wind and tossed

[2]

Have you had any news of John lately. perhaps you know he has been in Scotland and has had the pleasure of visiting the Old Home at Dunbar now a Temperance Hotel he got permission to go upstairs to his bed room and to climb up to the roof where he and David used to walk in their night Dresses, I gave him a list of all our old friends and he has called on all of them that are left, He also went to the

[3]

Cemetery and found the resting places of my Dear Parents and Sisters & Brothers Then he went to Edinburgh and visited an old Scotchman, then to Leith and found a ship for Norway When at Leith he sent me the jubilee number of the Free Church of Scotland containing pictures of all the Ministers that were present at that time of the Disruption David is prospering in Cal. he likes the work and and is doing well

Location

Portage [Wisc.]

Date Original

1893 Aug 17

Source

Original letter dimensions unknown.

Resource Identifier

muir07_1291-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 07, Image 1291

Collection Identifier

Online finding aid for the microform version of the John Muir Correspondence http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0w1031nc

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

The Huntington Library, Muir Family Papers, HM 57349-57497. 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

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