Creator
Wanda Muir
Recipient
[John Muir]
Transcription
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Uncle Dave & Aunt Ette were here last Sunday. I am still learning 4 or 5 verses in the Bible every day and also a vers or two of Poetry. Now Papa good-by, take good care of your self and come home before long.
With love from all of us
Wanda Muir
P.S. since I wrote this letter we received one from you saying that you had such a cold. try not to get it any worse.
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Martinez Cal.
September 5. 1893.
My dear Papa
We have received your letters from Switzerland, and oh how glad we were to get them and how we enjoyed them. I wish I could have been there too and seen it all. All are very well here, Helen in particular is very well and is enjoying
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the grapes. I hope you will soon be home, how long do you think it will be before you are here, you said you would be home about grape time and the sweet waters and a few other kinds are ripe now. The little spray of Edelweiss you sent in your last letter to Mama was beautiful, how I wish I could have a growing plant of it hear at home. The weather here is almost cold, and it looks
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as if it were going to rain today. Helen is still delighted with her studies, she does not tire of them as we thought she would; often she does not want to stop when school hours are over but wants to keep on studying. We have given up going to Pacific Grove as people that have just come from there say the weather is very cold and foggy and besides Aunt Margaret concluded she was not able to go with us.
Location
Martinez, Calif.
Date Original
1893 Sep 5
Source
Original letter dimensions: 17.5 x 22 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, Wanda, "Letter from Wanda Muir to [John Muir], 1893 Sep 5." (1893). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 988.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/988
Resource Identifier
muir07_1321-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 07, Image 1321
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
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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
