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American Christian Review, Vol.26 ,No.2, January 11, 1883 Jan 1883

American Christian Review, Vol.26 ,No.2, January 11, 1883

American Christian Review

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Letter From Mother [Ann Gilrye Muir] To John Muir, 1883 Jan 5., Ann Gilrye Muir Jan 1883

Letter From Mother [Ann Gilrye Muir] To John Muir, 1883 Jan 5., Ann Gilrye Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)


Portage Jany 5th 1883

Dear John & Louie

On New Years – morning we were surprised to see David come in with two boxes from Cal. so he unpacked our one – spreading the contents all over the table and reading the labels – We were much pleased to see so many specimens of plants , trees, and flowers, so many kinds that we had not seen before – We shared with David - and Katie is quite pleased with them – and will try to coax some of them to grow – it was quite an undertaking – to …

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History Of Law Class Of 1883 Of Michigan University, Charles I. York Dec 1882

History Of Law Class Of 1883 Of Michigan University, Charles I. York

Yearbooks & Class Year Publications

The origin of this book, which is a "new departure," and ever to be remembered as a production of the La.w Class of 1883 of the Michigan University, without a precedent from which to conceive its peculiarities of style, is as follows: In a convention hel1882, to put in nomination Senior Officers, the author was nominated for Class Historian, to be balloted for in about a week thereafter. During the time intervening between nomination nnd election day, the author imagined his election and began to inquire of the oflice, which led to his conception that a departure from the usual …

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Letter From John Muir To Emily [O. Pelton], 1883 Jan 1., John Muir Dec 1882

Letter From John Muir To Emily [O. Pelton], 1883 Jan 1., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Martinez, Cal.

Jan. 1, 1883

Dear friend Emily,

I once more wish you a happy New Year. About the 20th I think since the first New Year wish in the Mondell House; and many a change has taken place in these 20 years for both of us.
I have not heard from you since I left California for the Polar regions, but fancy you may yet be at Brownsville or thereabouts. I hope your summers work in school did not weary you so much as to injuriously affect your health. When are you ever going to pay us a …

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Botanical Notes On Alaska., John Muir Dec 1882

Botanical Notes On Alaska., John Muir

John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986)

47th Congress 2d Session. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Ex. Doc. No. 105. EN ALASKA AND THE N. W. ARCTIC sOCEAN m NOTES AND MEMORAKDAVvMEDIOAi; jAND ANTHROPOLOGICAL ' BOTANICAL;rORKITHOLOGICAL. WASHINGTON: -GOVERNMENT. PEINTING OFFICE. "BOTANICAL .NOTES ON ALASKA. JOHN" MUIR. 45 I r BOTANICAL NOTES. •,'.':/• . By John Mtjie. /,.... INTRODUCTORY. The plants named in the following notes were collected at many localities on the coasts of Alaska and Siberia, and on Saint Lawrence, Wrangel, and Herald Islands, between about latitude .54.° and 71°, longitude 101° aud 178°, in the course of short excursions, some of them less than an hour in …

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Letter From Annie L. [Muir] To Maggie & Saharah [Muir], [Ca. 1882? ] Dec 29., Annie L. Muir Dec 1882

Letter From Annie L. [Muir] To Maggie & Saharah [Muir], [Ca. 1882? ] Dec 29., Annie L. Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)


Friday Eve. Dec. 29-

Dear Sisters, Maggie & Sarah:

I would have written to you before but expected each day to hear that you had started for home. I am glad however that you are staying long enough to get a benefit health word, as well as in other respects. I should judge from your letters that you are in a sort of Enchanted Land. I can scarcely conceive of so delightful a sport sublunar. And I long to be there also. Maybe I shall some day, who knows. — Our Christmas Day has come and gone, with a much …

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Letter From Mary [Muir Hand] To Maggie [Margaret Muir Reid], & Sharah [Muir Galloway], 1882 Dec 19., Mary Muir Hand Dec 1882

Letter From Mary [Muir Hand] To Maggie [Margaret Muir Reid], & Sharah [Muir Galloway], 1882 Dec 19., Mary Muir Hand

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)


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and awkward and unsatisfactory in the art . Nature is always so superior to art that pictures are usually the most satisfactory the more we forget the real beauty in Nature or are ignorant of it — I hope to make a winter picture in oils – before the snows go away – and I have one or two other little oil pieces in my mind but whether I can accomplish all I plan in that direction time alone can disclose Your telling of fruits and flowers and green leaves and grasses — at this season but shows us …

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Letter From D[Avid ] G[Ilrye] Muir To John Muir [Et. Al. ], 1882 Dec 17., David Gilrye Muir Dec 1882

Letter From D[Avid ] G[Ilrye] Muir To John Muir [Et. Al. ], 1882 Dec 17., David Gilrye Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)


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Portage Wis Dec [7?] / 82

Maggie Sarah Louie & John yr before beauty

Dear sisters & brother I have long intended to write to you but a convenient time never seems to come, Katie says I must write today or never so that explains my position, I have to write eight or ten letters nearly every day & it seems as though I could not find time for my ‘foreign correspondence’! We are very busy in the store at present, lots of business, folks are all well, as usual as far as I know Katie is about as …

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American Christian Review, Vol.25, No.51, December 14, 1882 Dec 1882

American Christian Review, Vol.25, No.51, December 14, 1882

American Christian Review

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American Christian Review, Vol.25, No.48, November 23, 1882 Nov 1882

American Christian Review, Vol.25, No.48, November 23, 1882

American Christian Review

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Letter From Mother [Ann Gilrye Muir] To John Muir, 1882 Nov 23., Ann Gilrye Muir Nov 1882

Letter From Mother [Ann Gilrye Muir] To John Muir, 1882 Nov 23., Ann Gilrye Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)


Box [356?] Portage 23d Nov 1882

Dear John

I hope this will find you and your family well – I am much pleased to think that Margt. & Sarah has reached you in your distant home – after having been separated for so many years – Yes – it does seem very long since you left us – but the time may come when you can revisit us again. I suppose your work still goes on – while here everything is covered with snow – Winter seems to be fairly begun now, although we have had a pleasant fall - …

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Letter From Robt. Paterson To John Muir, 1882 Nov 13., Robert Paterson Nov 1882

Letter From Robt. Paterson To John Muir, 1882 Nov 13., Robert Paterson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)


30 Kelly Street Greenock, Scotland, 13th Nov [r?] 1882.

Mr [deleted Robert] John Muir,

Sir,

I hope you will pardon the presumption of addressing you, whom I do not know, except through your writings. – I can fancy you deluged with enquiries of this sort, and so, if you do not find time to reply, I will make for you, that excuse. I have been casting about for some time, for some means of entering upon a rustic life, as I find confinement does not suit my health, and besides I have a little of that lore for

nature, for …

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Letter From Peter H. Burnett To Louie Strentzel Muir, 1882 Oct 23., Peter H. Burnett Oct 1882

Letter From Peter H. Burnett To Louie Strentzel Muir, 1882 Oct 23., Peter H. Burnett

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)


[in margin: 578 Old Peter Burnett Peter Burnett to Louie]

San Francisco 610 Jones Street, Oct. 23, 1882.

Mrs. Louis Strentzel Muir-

My dear Madam

The present of a box of choice grapes you kindly sent me arrived on Saturday last, for which let me return you my appreciation acknowledgement. I [illegible] several bunches of very small, beautiful, and delicious blue grapes among the others, which I had never seen before. My grandchildren came to see me yesterday, and enjoyed the feast. My Sister, Mrs. E. A. Cain, is now at my house, and will remain during the winter. She …

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Letter From Sarah [Muir Galloway] To John Muir, 1882 Sep 26., Sarah Muir Galloway Sep 1882

Letter From Sarah [Muir Galloway] To John Muir, 1882 Sep 26., Sarah Muir Galloway

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)


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the folks were all pretty well, except Mary, who had come to make a visit of a few weeks she was rather nervous, and not as well as usual, Wheeler has grown to be a fine boy, bright and intelligent, just the picture of Willis. We are having exceedingly dry weather here, so that the dust is perfectly terrible, if we take a good ride, we look as though we might have been around a thrashing machine, there has been no rain for eight or nine weeks. I wrote to both you and Louie, in the spring I think, …

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American Christian Review, Vol.25, No.36, August 31, 1882 Aug 1882

American Christian Review, Vol.25, No.36, August 31, 1882

American Christian Review

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American Christian Review, Vol.25, No.34, August 17, 1882 Aug 1882

American Christian Review, Vol.25, No.34, August 17, 1882

American Christian Review

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American Christian Review, Vol.25, No.31, July 27, 1882 Jul 1882

American Christian Review, Vol.25, No.31, July 27, 1882

American Christian Review

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American Christian Review, Vol.25, No.29, July 13, 1882 Jul 1882

American Christian Review, Vol.25, No.29, July 13, 1882

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American Christian Review, Vol.25, No.21, May 18, 1882 May 1882

American Christian Review, Vol.25, No.21, May 18, 1882

American Christian Review

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Letter From [Ann Gilrye Muir] To Daniel [H. Muir], 1882 May 16., Ann Gilrye Muir May 1882

Letter From [Ann Gilrye Muir] To Daniel [H. Muir], 1882 May 16., Ann Gilrye Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Portage Wis. May 16 1882

Dear Daniel

Your letter of the 12th [illegible] is received, and brings good news I am glad to know that you are all well and that business is increasing – and also that you have sold your farm, as it did not suit your expectations — In regard to the money I may say that I have no immediate use for it – as I have not yet found a suitable house or even lot but am looking out all the time and as you can send it any time on ten days notice - …

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Letter From Mother [Ann Gilrye Muir] To John Muir, 1882 May 7., Ann Gilrye Muir May 1882

Letter From Mother [Ann Gilrye Muir] To John Muir, 1882 May 7., Ann Gilrye Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Box 356 Portage May 9th 1882

Dear John

I have waited a long time for some response to my lst letter, if you have wrote to me since January – the letter must have been miscarried – as none has been received. I hop you and family are all enjoying good health. Are you devoting your time now to home affairs – I see by the N. papers that the “Corwin” has again sailed for the “Polar Regions” I feel glad to think you are not with her\ Perhaps you will be able

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before long to visit …

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Letter From [Joanna Muir Brown] To Mary [Muir Hand], 1882 Apr 25., Joanna Muir Brown Apr 1882

Letter From [Joanna Muir Brown] To Mary [Muir Hand], 1882 Apr 25., Joanna Muir Brown

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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[in margin: Walter was up at Kansas City last week which is within about a hundred miles of Crete [Neb.?] He went to start a lumber yard [illegible] and made very satisfactory arrangements.]

spring for a fresh drink and I did wish you could just have been with me for an hour at least I am sure your eyes would have feasted on the quiet beauty, there is a little stream running through a ravine from the spring eastward and on either side are ferns and flowers and beautiful trees, sometime you surely must come and spend a winter …

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Letter From Daniel Muir [Sr.] To Daniel And Emma [Muir], 1882 Apr 1., Daniel Muir Sr. Mar 1882

Letter From Daniel Muir [Sr.] To Daniel And Emma [Muir], 1882 Apr 1., Daniel Muir Sr.

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4]Paul could not get of the way of righteousness by the law of Moses till Jesus Christ stoped him saying Paul why persecutest thou me then he Paul preached Christ crucified for the Sins of all men for he tasted death for all men. though mercy & free grace. not of works least any man should boast. So the apostles and those who believed through their ministry was commanded to go into all the world & preach Christ crucified for the Sins of all men for their original and actual Sins from their birth untill their death. No wonder at …

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Letter From [Joanna Muir Brown] To [John Muir], 1882 Mar 24., Joanna Muir Brown Mar 1882

Letter From [Joanna Muir Brown] To [John Muir], 1882 Mar 24., Joanna Muir Brown

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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to do work very nicely, she used to be a slave and talks about “my misses in Tennessee” Jefferson is just twenty four miles southeast of Little Rock and sixteen mi. north of Pine Bluff. When we came here there was only one little white house, and a large open dancing and preaching hall and refreshment stand which the R.R. Co. had arranged for excursionists who come it is said on every train during the warm season, because of the beauty and healthfulness of the place, there are now six little houses on one St. two on another, a …

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American Christian Review, Vol.25, No.13, March 23, 1882 Mar 1882

American Christian Review, Vol.25, No.13, March 23, 1882

American Christian Review

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Letter From Mother [Ann Gilrye Muir] To John Muir, 1882 Feb 21., Ann Gilrye Muir Feb 1882

Letter From Mother [Ann Gilrye Muir] To John Muir, 1882 Feb 21., Ann Gilrye Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Portage, Wisconsin,

Box 356, Feb, 21, 1882.

Dear John,

I gladly received your letter of January 2d telling us of your welfare, also of your family and home. From what you write I think you are preparing to stay more at home than you have done heretofore, and I am glad of it. I trust your little girl will be spared to be ever a joy and happiness to you all.
Your father came home about Christmas and stayed until Joanna and Walter [Brown] came, to make us a visit on their way South, and when they left he accompanied …

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American Christian Review, Vol.25, No.8, February 16, 1882 Feb 1882

American Christian Review, Vol.25, No.8, February 16, 1882

American Christian Review

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American Christian Review, Vol.25, No.5, January 26, 1882 Jan 1882

American Christian Review, Vol.25, No.5, January 26, 1882

American Christian Review

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American Christian Review, Vol.25, No.2, January 5, 1882 Jan 1882

American Christian Review, Vol.25, No.2, January 5, 1882

American Christian Review

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Letter From John Muir To Asa Gray, 1882 Jan 2., John Muir Jan 1882

Letter From John Muir To Asa Gray, 1882 Jan 2., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Cal. Jan 2d, 1882.

My dear Asa Gray

I cordially wish you a happy new year, & rejoice with your many friends that you are once more in your own country & still strong to work & enjoy. Parry was here a short time ago & we greatly enjoyed his visit. He reported Dr Engelman unwell & likely to seek California next season for health as well

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I shall fondly hope that you also will come again to this side the big botanic garden for another ramble among the trees & to delight your friends. The [Bidwells?] …

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