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Letter From John Muir To [Strentzel Family], 1879 Jul 9., John Muir Jul 1879

Letter From John Muir To [Strentzel Family], 1879 Jul 9., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Steamship California, On the Columbia, a few miles below Astoria, July 9th 1879.

Dear friends three,

Your bottles & letters, one from Louie & one from the Doctor were received at Seattle two days ago, the whole sinking or raising me more & more irredeemably in debt. I am on my way to Alaska, will go as far as Sitka to obtain general views of the Coast & as much of the interior as good & safe opportunities chance to offer. The California is a staunch little screw steamer smooth & narrow & will no doubt roll & …

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Letter From Louie [Strentzel] To [John Muir], 1879 Jun 27., Louie Strentzel Jun 1879

Letter From Louie [Strentzel] To [John Muir], 1879 Jun 27., Louie Strentzel

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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sight must be always everything that is yours. So I persuaded Papa to go with me to San Francisco, Monday morning, and Mr. Upham said he was “very glad of our coming for those plants on account of the mice being trouble- some in that closet!” He also sent out a large box for keeping the books and magazines that were left. While moving the pamphlets from the bureau, the first thing I found was that veritable Sequoia letter, which I promptly confiscated; and deeming it undesirable for strangers to read them, I made search for all letters and …

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Letter From John Muir To [Strentzel Family], 1879 Jun 25., John Muir Jun 1879

Letter From John Muir To [Strentzel Family], 1879 Jun 25., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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On board the Zephyr between Steilicoom & Olympia June 25th 1879. ————

I wish I could tell you how beautiful our sail has been ever since we entered the Straits of F[illegible] The shores are de[illegible]ly timbered with the most lovely comfers & Arbutus (Madrono) down to the waters edge & the jutting headlands & long promout[illegible] islets, islands; bays sound inlets & rivers are so varied & so marvelously composed that the whole is one extr[illegible]tly lovely fairy land. And then even from the steamer the glacial handwriting is so clear & telling & on so grand a …

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Letter From John Muir To [Mr. & Mrs. John] Bidwell, 1879 Jun 19., John Muir Jun 1879

Letter From John Muir To [Mr. & Mrs. John] Bidwell, 1879 Jun 19., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

920 Valencia St. San Francisco, June 19th 1879.

Dear friends, Mrs & Mr Bidwell.

Good bye, I am going home. going to the mountains, to the ice & forests & flowers. I have just returned from Yosemite Valley where I enjoyed a delicious bath in fresh beauty notwithstanding the uneasy scare I had to suffer in being compelled to lecture. tomorrow I sail on the Dakota to the ice of the Upper Coast. first to Victoria & about the Sound thence inland here & there to learn what I may: Will probably visit Alaska ere I return in the fall. …

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Letter From John Muir To [Jeanne C.] Carr, 1879 Jun 19., John Muir Jun 1879

Letter From John Muir To [Jeanne C.] Carr, 1879 Jun 19., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[Original letter in mounted set of letters to Mrs. Carr # 77].San Francisco, June 19th 1879.Dear Mrs. Carr:Goodbye. I am going home - going to my summer in the snow and ice and forests of the north coast.Will sail tomorrow at noon on the Dakota for Victoria and Olympia. Will then push inland and alongland. May visit Alaska.I hope you and the doctor may not suffer yourselves to be drawn away into the stream of politics again. You will be far happier on your land.I was at the Valley. How beautiful it was - fresh and full of cool crystal …

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Letter From John Muir To Mc Chesney [Family], 1879 Jun 19., John Muir Jun 1879

Letter From John Muir To Mc Chesney [Family], 1879 Jun 19., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[Original letter returned to Mrs. J.B. McChesney]

S. F., June 20th, 1879,

McChesneys:

Farewell. I leave in haste tomorrow at noon for ice and Victoria. Looked for you, Mrs., at the Valley.

Ever cordially yours,

John Muir.

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Letter From John Mc Landburgh To John Muir, 1879 Jun 13., John Mclandburgh Jun 1879

Letter From John Mc Landburgh To John Muir, 1879 Jun 13., John Mclandburgh

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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McLandburgh & Co., GRAIN COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 90 La Salle Street.

CHICAGO, June 13 1879

Mr. John Muir San Francisco, Cal My dear Sir:

It gave me pleasure to receive your letter introducing Mr. M. [ Keloey?] – and I went with him personally to see about his project introducing him to several of our scientific men here. It has been several days since I saw him last and I do not know what he decided upon. The last call he made he was talking of taking the “[illegible] King” directly through to New York City. It was with [illegible]siderable …

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Letter From G. S. Mackey To John Muir, 1879 Jun 2., G. S. Mackey Jun 1879

Letter From G. S. Mackey To John Muir, 1879 Jun 2., G. S. Mackey

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

00848San Francisco, 2 June 1879My dear Sir, In enclose the promised letter of introduction to Mr. [ Walkem?], the premier of British Columbia. I also send you herewith, a circular letter addressed to my old Canadian friends, (with whom I recently travelled from the East) who are Engineers employed to explore a new route for the Canadian Pacific RRs, & whom I observe by the New= =papers, have gone up the Country in the direction of the Peace River — They are all good fellows and I hope you may [ fall?] in with them. Should you ever visit Europe …

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Letter From G. S. Mackey To [?] Cambie, 1879 Jun 2., G. S. Mackey Jun 1879

Letter From G. S. Mackey To [?] Cambie, 1879 Jun 2., G. S. Mackey

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

00849 San francisco, 2 June 1879Dear [ Cambie?], This will be handed to you by my friends Mr. Muir, and Mr. McGee of this city — They are both gentlemen of high standing and [illegible]ess my full confidence & regard. Pray [illegible] them with all the information & help you can afford, in their journey across the Mountains. Mr. Muir is the well known geologist of the Pacific Coast, and I know you will be pleased to meet him. With kind regards to all your party I am, Yours sincerely G S. McKayTo/ Mr. Cambie, Mr. MacLeod, Mr. Keefer or …

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Letter From Jessica G. Allen To John Muir, 1879 May 31., Jessica G. Allen May 1879

Letter From Jessica G. Allen To John Muir, 1879 May 31., Jessica G. Allen

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

San Jose, May 31, 1879,

My dear Mr. Muir:

Your note was duly received last Wednesday evening -many thanks for your interest in my affairs.
We are chiefly occupying ourselves today trying to keep cool, the hot wave has reached us at last, and we are slowly, sizzling. Papa has gone to Placerville. We expect him home tonight. The rest of us are enjoying moderately good health. Miss Webster charges me to tell you that she will be in the city next Tuesday, at 600 Sutter, and hopes to see you soon thereafter, to fulfill your promise.
I hope Miss …

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Letter From Joanna [Muir] To John Muir, 1879 May 31., Joanna Muir May 1879

Letter From Joanna [Muir] To John Muir, 1879 May 31., Joanna Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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really forming their acquaintance is concerned. They are so near us that I can enjoy their company even when I do not feel like walking far. I am moreover recoverring some of my forgotten knowledge of Botany, M. does the reading and I follow along as well as I can. If I ever have the full use of my eyes again I am determined to pursue this study for I love it more than ever. I must not omit mentioning the glorious boatrides while I enjoy nearly every pleasant day. All is well you see and the change is …

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Letter From Annie K[Ennedy] Bidwell To John Muir, 1879 May 17., Annie Kennedy Bidwell May 1879

Letter From Annie K[Ennedy] Bidwell To John Muir, 1879 May 17., Annie Kennedy Bidwell

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Rancho Chico, May 17th, 1879.

Dear Mr. Muir:

Your favor in reply to the flowers sent from Canyon was duly received, and now I will explain how I happened to reply to your letter by these silent messengers. I wrote you at that time, intending to enclose a few flowers, but after depositing the few specimens in cotton and envelope, I concluded to look over my letter, and when that was done I said to myself,'this is on too high a key. Mr. Muir will think I am trying to tantalize him, or if he does not think that, he …

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Letter From John Muir To [Annie Kennedy] Bidwell, 1879 May 3., John Muir May 1879

Letter From John Muir To [Annie Kennedy] Bidwell, 1879 May 3., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

920 Valencia St. San Francisco, May 3 1879.

Dear Mrs Bidwell.

Your bonnie telling bunch of bloom is here, & how gladly I would seek the fields where it came you must know, But alack!! work, work, work, holds me here. How beautiful the fields, & plains, & fence corners, about Chico must be. I have been hoping all through the winter that I should be with you in bloom-time for at least a week. Now summer is coming on, & my chances to see Chico this year seem to be growing less. I may probably go into the Sierra …

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Letter From John Muir To [Jeanne C.] Carr, 1879 Apr 24., John Muir Apr 1879

Letter From John Muir To [Jeanne C.] Carr, 1879 Apr 24., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

920 Valencia St. S.F. Apr 24th 1879.

Dear Mrs Carr.

I enclose at last the name of the big orange book. Either Paqot & Co or [illegible] & Co. will import it for Mr Crann at the price pen named – for less if intended for the Library. I thought you would have been to make at least one of your small business -like calls to see me ere this, but I suppose the office & conventions & your farm leave you precious little time. Your days all go by in little beats & bits while you move so fast …

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Letter From John Muir To Miss [Louie] Strentzel, 1879 Apr 24., John Muir Apr 1879

Letter From John Muir To Miss [Louie] Strentzel, 1879 Apr 24., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

920 Valencia St, San Francisco, Apr 24th 1879.

Alack Alack! Miss Strentzel the big bouquet is dying, dying, dying, & so are the roses. We all do fade as a leaf, fade as a bouquet on a batchelors table. But in the midst of these withered & withering images it is cheering to know that the memory of gifts so pure & good endureth forever. On the evening of its arrival I carried all the bloom- en mass along the hall to the parlor to show it to the family, & all the way was strewn with the rosy [snowy?] …

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Letter From John Muir To Miss [Louie] Strentzel, 1879 Apr 18., John Muir Apr 1879

Letter From John Muir To Miss [Louie] Strentzel, 1879 Apr 18., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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San Francisco, Apr 18th 1879.

Dear Miss Strentzel

I failed to see you on Tuesday night, the absurd old black horse having for once been on time. Everybody, according to the eternal unfitness of civilized things, has been seeking for me & calling on me while I was away. John Swett on his second failure to find me left word with Mr Upham that he was coming up to Martinez to see me some time during the summer vacation!! The other day I chanced to find in my pocket that slippery fuzzy mesh you wear round your neck. The …

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Letter From John Muir To [Jeanne C.] Carr, 1879 Apr 9., John Muir Apr 1879

Letter From John Muir To [Jeanne C.] Carr, 1879 Apr 9., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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ice. & may possibly find my way home in the fall to see my mother. I wonder if you will really go quietly away south when your office term expires & rest in the afternoon of your life among your pine & orange leaves, or, unable to yet full absolution from official & Womans Rights unrest, you will fight & squirm till sundown. Ive seen nothing of you all these fighting years. I suppose nothing less than an [underlined: exhaustive] miniature of all the leafy creatures of the globe will satisfy your Passadena aspirations. You know how little …

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Letter From Mother [Ann G. Muir] To Mary [Muir Hand], 1879 Apr 1., Ann Gilrye Muir Mar 1879

Letter From Mother [Ann G. Muir] To Mary [Muir Hand], 1879 Apr 1., Ann Gilrye Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

1879 Portage April 1st

Dear Mary

I wish to thank you for your valuable present to me. But I feel sorry to have robbed you of one of your treasures — Last week each of us, had a letter from Hamilton, your father is still quite lame — but says his health is good I am sorry we did



[on envelope:

4/1/79
fm Joanna & her mother

Mrs Willie Hand, Phillips, Price Co. Wisconsin.]

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Letter From Joanna [Muir] To [Mary Muir Hand], 1879 Apr 1., Joanna Muir Mar 1879

Letter From Joanna [Muir] To [Mary Muir Hand], 1879 Apr 1., Joanna Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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and sit up nights, after Sarah became over fatigued taking care of them. There has been a great deal of sickness in Town besides measles, co[illegible] families being laid up at one time, but I think the worst is past. I called on Isa Harper the other day and found her pretty well. Jessie Reid says, “Tell Auntie I want that recipe for cleaning Red gloves.” Annie says she will write in about a week Very much love from all to both of you and Willis Most Lovingly Joanna.


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[in margin: Your carpet has come it looks very …

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Letter From J. K. Mc Lean To John Muir, 1879 Mar 14., J. K. Mclean Mar 1879

Letter From J. K. Mc Lean To John Muir, 1879 Mar 14., J. K. Mclean

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Oakland. Mar 14 ‘79

Mr Muir Esqr

Dear Sir.

It’s in contem- plation – to hold a “Sunday school Assembly” [illegible]Yosemite Valley [illegible]- [illegible] [illegible] of the present you. [illegible] [illegible – whole line] A large no. of visitors are expected from [illegible – whole line] having been obtained for an excu[illegible] [illegible – whole line] [illegible – whole line] [illegible – whole line]. I am instructed by the [illegible] of [illegible]ments – of which I am [illegible] -, to see of your s[illegible] can be obtained to deliver two (or more) lectures in the valley upon the “Geological Reems …

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Letter From [Charles ?] Scribner To John Muir, 1879 Mar 11., Charles Scribner Mar 1879

Letter From [Charles ?] Scribner To John Muir, 1879 Mar 11., Charles Scribner

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[in margin: R N Johnson]



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[Letterhead]

March 11th ’79.

Dear Sir:

Your form of the 27th is at hand & we will attend to your suggestions. We should be glad to use any additions to the “Forests” you may send us. We have showed your letter to Mr Drake & he wished us to say to you that he thinks you will be perfectly satisfied with the illustrations for your next articles. Some of them have been exactly reproduced & the others have been drawn by Mr. S[illegible]lie who has been over the ground & has photographs of many …

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Letter From James Geikie To John Muir, 1879 Mar 1., James Geikie Feb 1879

Letter From James Geikie To John Muir, 1879 Mar 1., James Geikie

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[ Perth?] March 1 1979

Dear Sir

I am glad that you found my paper on the glaciation of the Outer Hebrides of interest. I quite agree with you that so many details as I find are not needed to convince any one who is conversant with the mode of glacial action that these is lands have been glaciated from the South east. But the prejudices if I may be allowed to use so hard a word of English geologists in favour of icebergs are hard to overcome, and one can only hope to do so by piling up the …

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Letter From P. C. Renfrew To John Muir, 1879 Feb 26., P. C. Renfrew Feb 1879

Letter From P. C. Renfrew To John Muir, 1879 Feb 26., P. C. Renfrew

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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literally glorious in May and June with rhododendron and other flowering shrubs. Your second question is have you been on the Three Sisters. Yes on the centre & north – the former on July 28th the latter on Sept. 10th 1875. 3d How many glaciers are there on these flanks. Yo my position knowledge these are three acive ones each sending its stream of “pulp” (they would say in N[illegible] to the lowlands east and west. I do not say there are not other active ones but these I have visited; the largest four times. Now, allow me to …

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Letter From Ed.S[Cribner's] M[Onthly] [Robert Underwood Johnson] To John Muir, 1879 Feb 19., Robert Underwood Johnson, Editors Scribner's Monthly Feb 1879

Letter From Ed.S[Cribner's] M[Onthly] [Robert Underwood Johnson] To John Muir, 1879 Feb 19., Robert Underwood Johnson, Editors Scribner's Monthly

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

or July or in both. We wish very much that you could see the drawings; still in most cases they are carefully corrected by your own sketches. Our art editor, R. Drake, will observe your wishes in the matter of the drawings by yourself. We inclose the copy of the note desired and are Very sincerely yours, Eds. [ S.M.?]

N.B. In case you should desire a check for the ma- terial not yet printed, before its publication, we shall be glad to forward it. Have you other work in hand?

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Editorial Rooms of Scribner’s Monthly, 743 Broadway, New …

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Letter From John Muir To [Jeanne C.] Carr, 1879 Feb 18., John Muir Feb 1879

Letter From John Muir To [Jeanne C.] Carr, 1879 Feb 18., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

920 Valencia St San Francisco Feb 18th – 79.

Dear Mrs Carr.

Yesterday I sent you by mail five dollars worth of tree seeds, according to directions. They seemed fresh, & I was assured they were so. Hope they may grow as well as they can for you, & at least hint the beauty of their homes & their fathers. I have been strongly tempted to make another visit to southern Cala, but have concluded the season is too far gone. Your letter lay at John Swetts some time, so the seeds may not reach you in time though I …

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Letter From John Muir To [Annie Kennedy] Bidwell, 1879 Feb 17., John Muir Feb 1879

Letter From John Muir To [Annie Kennedy] Bidwell, 1879 Feb 17., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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How grand an outburst of bloom there will be about your home when the spring & sunshine is warm & what a rising from the dead in the dry levels cast of your house among the gilias & newsphilas & daisies. Go ahead with your botany, & make your floral hay while your free summer days last Remember me to the General I will see you when ever I can. Cordially your friend, John Muir.


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920 Valencia St. San Francisco, Feb 17th 1879.

Dear Mrs Bidwell,

I have no distinct memory of the incident that has given you …

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Letter From [Sarah Muir Galloway] To John Muir, 1879 Feb 16., Sarah Muir Galloway Feb 1879

Letter From [Sarah Muir Galloway] To John Muir, 1879 Feb 16., Sarah Muir Galloway

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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telling what little I knew and gave your San Francisco address so you may hear from some of them Dont you think I am getting to be quite a traveler, I was actually at Racine in the fall, Sister Annie was going so I had company. Dan and Emma showed us around the City and did every thing to make our visit as pleasant as possible They have a very pleasant home in the most beautiful street of the City, the greatest attraction about the place for me was the [underlined: Lake] the roar and dash of the waters …

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Letter From John Muir To Doctor [John Strentzel], 1879 Feb 11., John Muir Feb 1879

Letter From John Muir To Doctor [John Strentzel], 1879 Feb 11., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

920 Valencia St. San Francisco, Feb’ 11 1879.

Dear Doctor.

Your letter & pippins are here. You must have been quite sick, though you write so lightly of blues & testaments & Scotch brose. I am glad you are well again, & hope that the coming spring sunshine will remove all trace of your lung difficulty. My blues were nothing worth mentioning, only a dull unfruitful endurance of nothing in particular-a sort of religious desperation about metropolitan homes, that suggest heavens by way of opposites. I too am better, & the bees hum however indistinctly. Bee-lands,

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bee-ranches, honey fields, …

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Letter From A[Nnie] K[Ennedy] Bidwell To John Muir, 1879 Feb 11., Annie Kennedy Bidwell Feb 1879

Letter From A[Nnie] K[Ennedy] Bidwell To John Muir, 1879 Feb 11., Annie Kennedy Bidwell

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Rancho Chico, Feb. 11th, 1879.

My dear Mr. Muir:

As I have owed you a letter since yours from Nevada was received, it is my purpose to avail myself of my privilege, and at the same time relieve my mind of an uncomfortable burden which has oppressed me ever since your last call on me in San Francisco.
In the first place I am seldom sufficiently warm when in that city, and on the day referred to my feet were so cold that they ached, and I concluded that inelegant as it was I would move to the …

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Letter From J[Ohn] Strentzel To John Muir, 1879 [Feb] 2., John Strentzel Feb 1879

Letter From J[Ohn] Strentzel To John Muir, 1879 [Feb] 2., John Strentzel

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Alhambra, February 2, 1879.

Friend Muir:

Since you left us, I too have had my share of "the blues" of the deepest dye, my mind running upon last wills and testaments, but after a patient trial of the hygienic agency of calorie with liberal doses of oat brose for sustenance, the overburdened lungs have resumed their normal action, so far as their abnormal state will permit. How I might have fared if left down in the midst of that smoky conglomeration of dwelling boxes with its facilities of drug-shops and doctors is quite another thing. So I say a poor …

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