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Letter From [Ann G. Muir] To Daniel [H. Muir], 1877 [June] 18., Ann G. Muir Jun 1877

Letter From [Ann G. Muir] To Daniel [H. Muir], 1877 [June] 18., Ann G. Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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from me, and so many grand- -children now – I daily think of them all, and of all their parents, with much love, hoping we may one day all meet in our heavenly home above, and rejoice together for ever and ever Joanna is somewhat better and rides out all she can — the rest of the family are in thir usual health — The girls join me in earnest loving wishes to you all affectionately Yours Mother


[1] [in margin: June] Portage 18th, 1877

Dear Daniel

This morning I enjoyed the great pleasure of receiving your magnificent present …

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Notes From Utah. John Muir The Naturalist, On Bathing In Salt Lake-A Glorious Swim-Erroneous Impressions Corrected. (Special Correspondent Of The Bulletin.) Lake Point, Utah, May 20, 1877., John Muir Jun 1877

Notes From Utah. John Muir The Naturalist, On Bathing In Salt Lake-A Glorious Swim-Erroneous Impressions Corrected. (Special Correspondent Of The Bulletin.) Lake Point, Utah, May 20, 1877., John Muir

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

San Francisco, Thursday, June 14, 1STT. NOTES FROM UTAH~ John Muir, the Naturalist, on Bathing; in Sait Hake—A Glorious Swim—Erroneous Impressions Corrected. [SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OP THE BULLETIN.] Lake Point, Utah, May 20, 1877. When the north wind blows bathing in Salt n Lake is a glorious baptism, for then it is all : wildly awake with waves, blooming like a prairie in snowy crystal foam. Plunging con- i fidently into the midst of the grand uproar you are hugged and welcomed, aud swim without effort, rocking and whirling up and down, u round and round in delightful rhythm, while iq …

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Letter From Anne W. Cheney To John Muir, 1877 Apr 4., Anne W. Cheney Apr 1877

Letter From Anne W. Cheney To John Muir, 1877 Apr 4., Anne W. Cheney

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

South Manchester,
Apr. 4th, 1877.

My dear Mr. Muir:

It is so long since I have heard from you, or since I have written to you that I really do not know whether I owe you a letter or not, but having a little spare time this morning I am going to venture a few words, in hope that sometime I may have a response. Your last letter seemed so different from you and your other ones, that I am inclined to think that city life has changed you somewhat. You seem more interested in those about you, in people …

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Yosemite In Flood., John Muir Feb 1877

Yosemite In Flood., John Muir

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

THE PACIFIC SCHOOL i HOME JOURNAL. Organ of the State Board of Education for the Publication of its Proceedings. VOLUME I SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. ALBERT LYSER, EDITOR. AND PROPRIETOR. No. 308 CLAY STREET. 1877-78. A 12 THE PACIFIC SCHOOL AND HOME JOURNAL. YOSEMITE IN FLOOD. Many a joyful stream is born in the Sierras, but not one can sing like the Merced. In childhood, high on the mountains, her silver thread is a moving melody; of sublime YosemUe she is the voice; the blooming chaparral or the flowery plains owe to her fullnesss their plant-wealth of purple and gold, and …

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Letter From Mother [Ann Gilrye Muir] To [John Muir], 1877 Feb 22., Ann Gilrye Muir Feb 1877

Letter From Mother [Ann Gilrye Muir] To [John Muir], 1877 Feb 22., Ann Gilrye Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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very soon and wishes to be kindly remembered to you Indeed we all unite in warmest wishes for your happiness, trusting our kind heavenly Father and friend will ever shadow and shelter you under his ever- -lasting wings of love and mercy — ever your very affectionate Mother.

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[1] 1877 Portage Feb, 22d

Dear John

I am always happy to hear about your welfare whither directly or indirectly — our last news of you were from Margt. she had just arrived home from Racine when she received your [in margin: 514] letter her health is quite good at …

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Letter From Joanna G. Muir To Sister Mary [Muir], 1877 Jan 30., Joanna G. Muir Jan 1877

Letter From Joanna G. Muir To Sister Mary [Muir], 1877 Jan 30., Joanna G. Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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[in margin: Annie says please send a postal immediately if she is to send the money]

Portage, Jan. 30, 77.

Dear Sister May,

How do you do, and how do you like Summer weather in January? Have you had any sleigh riding during the week past? I sup- pose you are too much a person of business to indulge [underlined: much] in so unpractical a use of time but as I am not a use- ful member of society I have spent nearly every afternoon of late in a cutter and with no “Little Billy” in front …

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Letter From [Anne G. Muir] To Daniel And Emma [Muir], 1876 Sep 10., Anne G. Muir Sep 1876

Letter From [Anne G. Muir] To Daniel And Emma [Muir], 1876 Sep 10., Anne G. Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Love to the dear little one may she be spared to be a comfort and blessing to her parents —


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1876 Portage Sept. 10th

Dear Daniel & Emma

I sincerely sympathize with you both at this time of sore trial and bereavement, how sad to lose the little one, around whom our affections so readily and firmly [ sing?], but in our distress, let us ever remember that the dear one is not lost but only gone before — and we will look forward to a happy reunion in a happier time where there is no more death — …

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Summering The Sierra. 'The Season' At The Yosemite Valley-A Disquisition On Tourists-In Memoriam-Lamon's Grave. (From Our Correspondent.) Yosemite Valley, August 20, 1876., John Muir Aug 1876

Summering The Sierra. 'The Season' At The Yosemite Valley-A Disquisition On Tourists-In Memoriam-Lamon's Grave. (From Our Correspondent.) Yosemite Valley, August 20, 1876., John Muir

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

Yosemite Valley, August 20, 1870. Considering the remoteiiess and irregularity of the many fountains and pathways of the Ycsesnite travel-stream, its flow has been remarkably constant. But this year the greater portion of its current seems to have been absorbed by the Centennial, as if it had fallen into a spongy bog or sandbed ; a condition of things peihaps pardonable once a century, notwithstanding nature's incomparable exposition la this, her grandest mountain tabernacle. Only about one half, or at most two-thirds of the usual n amber of regular tourists have visited the valley this year ; but ou the …

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Summering In The Sierra. John Muir Shakes The Dust Of The Town From His Feet And Flees To The Mountain. The Calaveras Grove-Some Facts About The Sequoia System. (Special Correspondence Of The Bulletin.) Big Tree Grove, July 13, 1876., John Muir Jul 1876

Summering In The Sierra. John Muir Shakes The Dust Of The Town From His Feet And Flees To The Mountain. The Calaveras Grove-Some Facts About The Sequoia System. (Special Correspondence Of The Bulletin.) Big Tree Grove, July 13, 1876., John Muir

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

THURSDAY EVENING, JULY. 20, 1S76. SUMMERING IN THE SIERRA. Sohn Hltiir Shakes the SJnst of the Sown from his Feet and JPlees to the SKoaaiaiasn The Caiaveras Grove—Some Facts About tfte Seauosa Svstem. 18PECIAI, CORRESPONDENCE OF THE BULLETIN.] Big Tree Grove, July 13, 1876. Ho, weary town worker, come to the woods and rest ! I wish it were possible to compel all to come ; not that I am just at this moment seized with a fit of Quixotic philanthropy, for with Thoreau, I am convinced that the profession of doing good is'full. It is hard, however, to see …

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Letter From Jeanne Carr To [The Strentzels], 1876 May 20., Jeanne C. Carr May 1876

Letter From Jeanne Carr To [The Strentzels], 1876 May 20., Jeanne C. Carr

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

STATE OF CALIFORNIA
Department of Public Instruction

Sacramento, May 20, 1876.

My dearest friends in Cal.- [The Strentzels]

I am to go east on Monday, with Mrs. Hayward and daughter - to my bereaved friend Mrs. Daggett, who is thought by Mrs. Scidmore to be in a very critical state of health. You have probably heard me speak of this life-long friend. She lost her husband very suddenly Ap[ril] 3, and then lost the precious remains on their way to Chicago - and the friends say that if anything can rouse her from the stupor of grief it will be …

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Letter From John Muir To Sarah [Muir Galloway], 1876 Apr 17., John Muir Apr 1876

Letter From John Muir To Sarah [Muir Galloway], 1876 Apr 17., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

1419 Taylor St. S.F. April 17th 1876

Dear Sister Sarah –

I was glad the other day to have the hard continuous toil of book writing interrupted by the postman handing in your letter. It is full of news, but I can think of little to put in the letter you ask for. My life these days is like the life of a glacier one eternal grind, & the top of my head suffers a weariness at times that you know nothing about. Im glad to see by the hills across the bay, all yellow & purple with buttercups & …

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Letter From [Ann Gilrye. Muir] To John Muir, 1876 Feb 28., Ann Gilrye Muir Feb 1876

Letter From [Ann Gilrye. Muir] To John Muir, 1876 Feb 28., Ann Gilrye Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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married and settled in London Perhaps you will not any more engage in those dangerous enterprises in the mountains as you have so much writing to do – and the oftener you deliver a lecture the work will become easier to you We have had an unsually fine open winter we have had no snow and no sleighing thus far some think that we may have snow enough yet — Mary and Annie and Joanna join me in sending our best wishes for your comfort and happiness — I trust that where ever you may be, you will ever …

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Letter From [Ann G. Muir] To Dan[Iel H. Muir], [1879] Mar 8., Ann Gilrye Muir Feb 1876

Letter From [Ann G. Muir] To Dan[Iel H. Muir], [1879] Mar 8., Ann Gilrye Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

In my last letter from Scotland [ Mrs Lenam?] sent me a photograph of the old Church that I attended in the happiest years of my life the church in which your grandfather was an elder for fifty years & it stands in the grave yard where the precious dust of my parents and brothers and sisters and friend are laid away until the resurrection morn — The girls join me in earnest loving wishes to you all. Hoping you will be able to write to us all soon, Most affectionately [underlined: Mother]


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1871 [1879] Portage 8th March

Dear …

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Letter From Julia M[Errill] Moores To John Muir, 1876 Feb 3., Julia Merrill Moores Feb 1876

Letter From Julia M[Errill] Moores To John Muir, 1876 Feb 3., Julia Merrill Moores

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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to the good of others – how could it be otherwise. I think I must have spoken of her & Sister Mina being with her this winter. They are in good health – though we all think Sister Kate works too hard. I wish she could be one summer with you in the Yosemite. You ask so kindly after the children that I must tell you of them. Merrill writes fully and very satisfactionly every week. He is studying hard & being ad[illegible] accordingly. He says he is perfectly well and very happy – that his work is very …

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Letter From [John Muir] To Sarah [Muir Galloway], 1875 Nov 2., John Muir Nov 1875

Letter From [John Muir] To Sarah [Muir Galloway], 1875 Nov 2., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Yosemite Valley Nov 2d 1875

Dear Sister Sarah, Here is your letter with the Dalles in it I’m glad you have escaped so long from the c[illegible] & sewing & baking to Gods green wild Dalles & dells for I know you were young again & that the natural love of beauty you possess had free fair play I will never forget the big happy day I spent there in the rocky gargy Wisconsin above Kilbourn City What lanes full of purple orchids & ferns. Aspedium fragraus I found these for the first time. & what hillsides of huckleberries …

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Letter From Anne W. Cheney To John Muir, 1875 Oct 18., Anne W. Cheney Oct 1875

Letter From Anne W. Cheney To John Muir, 1875 Oct 18., Anne W. Cheney

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Monday, Oct. 18th, 1875.

My dear Mr. Muir:

I don't wonder you ask if I ever hear you now, for it is so long since I have written you that I have forgotten when it was. Still we do not forget you, and my intentions are always good, but a housekeeper has so many many things to fill up her time (that is if she does her duties well) that I find my time for letter-writing becomes less every year.
You have been so good to write me as often as you have, and if you only knew how much …

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Letter From [Ann G. Muir] To Daniel [H. Muir], 1875 Oct 16., Ann G. Muir Oct 1875

Letter From [Ann G. Muir] To Daniel [H. Muir], 1875 Oct 16., Ann G. Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

1875 Portage Oct 16th

Dear Daniel

I gladly avail myself of this opportunity of enclosing for you a Post Office Order for 40 Dollars — I am well aware that this amount is nothing like a compensation for you — but please to accept of it in the meantime I hope this will find you all in your usual health. I hope Joanna is still improving. I often feel thankful that she is under your care.

(Please to acknowledge this)

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I trust that many a blessing from heaven will rest down upon you and yours, for the great …

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Summering In The Sierra. A Bit Of Forest-Study By John Muir. The Royal Sequoia-Its Beauty And Impressiveness-Its Cones And Timber-Doom Of The Coniferae-A Forest Hermit. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Fresno Grove Of Big Trees, Sept., 1875., John Muir Sep 1875

Summering In The Sierra. A Bit Of Forest-Study By John Muir. The Royal Sequoia-Its Beauty And Impressiveness-Its Cones And Timber-Doom Of The Coniferae-A Forest Hermit. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Fresno Grove Of Big Trees, Sept., 1875., John Muir

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

TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 31, 1873 SUMMERING IN THE SIEiftA, A Bit of Forest-Study fey John Mnir. The Royal Seqdtofa—Its Beanty and Impress* iveaioss—Its Cosses anil Tisuber—Dtftfin of the ilonlferae—a Forest Hermit. [FROM 0UB OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Fresno Grove of Big Trees, Sept., 1S75. A few days ago while camped in the fir woods on the head of one of the southmost tributaries of the Merced, I caught sight of a lofty granite dome, called Wa-mello by the Indians, looming into the free sky far above the forest, and though now studying trees, I soon found myself upon its commanding summit. Here …

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Summering In The Sierra. John Muir Discourses Of Sierra Forests, Etc.-The Glorious Solitudes Of Nature-Pine Nuts As Food-Tuolumne Meadows-Mono Pass-A Lovely Lake. (Special Correspondence Of The Bulletin.) Mono Lake, July, 1875., John Muir Aug 1875

Summering In The Sierra. John Muir Discourses Of Sierra Forests, Etc.-The Glorious Solitudes Of Nature-Pine Nuts As Food-Tuolumne Meadows-Mono Pass-A Lovely Lake. (Special Correspondence Of The Bulletin.) Mono Lake, July, 1875., John Muir

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

SUMMERING \H THE SIERRA. Joiin Muir Discourses of Sierra Forests, Etc.— The Glorious Solitudes of Nature—Pine Nats as Food—Tuolumne Meadows—Mono Pass—A IiOvely Mountain Lake. [SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF. THE BULLETIN.] Mono Lake, July —, 18TS. Going to the mountains is going home, and gladly we climbed higher, higher, through the freshened piney woods—over meadows, over streamlets, over waving ridge and dome. It was on the morning of the ISth of June that we set out for the summits, from the top of Yosemite walls. The exhilarating snow-storm of the 15th and.Kth being then fully completed and out of sight, as if …

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1875 Jul 11 To Mr John Muir P 4 And 1, William Trout Jul 1875

1875 Jul 11 To Mr John Muir P 4 And 1, William Trout

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Front he occasionally exhorts with good effect. Duncan Stirling though often a sufferer physically seems to be mentally vigorous above our expectations he is frequently listened to with much attention. A Bro Wm Mackay cousin to the Mackays of your acquaintance came from Scotland about 6 years ago lives 9 miles from Meaford is a farmer and quite a superior preacher he used to walk from home on Sunday morning and speak for 3/4ths of an hour most ably. Bro Sinclair generally leads not always satisfactorily. Fathers health holds out pretty well he is able to attend meeting …

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Letter From [Ann G. Muir] To Daniel [H. Muir], 1875 Jun 29., Ann G. Muir Jun 1875

Letter From [Ann G. Muir] To Daniel [H. Muir], 1875 Jun 29., Ann G. Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

1875 Portage June 29th

Dear Daniel

Another year has run its course – and we are spared to see another of your birthdays. I congratulate you, and earnestly pray that you may be spared to see many birth days and enjoy much happiness all your life long, I trust that the Lord will reward you a thousand fold for the kindness and care that you have bestowed on you sister Joanna — I would also thank Emma for all the kindness she has bestowed on her – during her long sickness -

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when Joanna left home I did …

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Flood-Storm In The Sierra., John Muir May 1875

Flood-Storm In The Sierra., John Muir

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

THE Overland Monthly DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COUNTRY. Vol. i4.—JUNE, 1875. — No. - it. i; - FLOOD-STORM IN'THE SIERRA. BEARS, wild sheep, and other-dea* izensof the mountains are usually driven down out of the high Sierra about the beginning of winter, and are seldom allowed to return before late spring. But the extraordinary sunfulness of last winter, and my eagerness to obtain general views of the geology and topography of the Feather River basin, caused me to make a reconnoissance of its upper tributary valleys in the month of January. I had just completed this hasty survey …

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Letter From [Ann G. Muir] To Daniel [H. Muir], 1875 Mar 17., Ann G. Muir Mar 1875

Letter From [Ann G. Muir] To Daniel [H. Muir], 1875 Mar 17., Ann G. Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)


[4] [illegible] [illegible]. I think there is much more [ilegible] here than in R. Ah[illegible]! ah[illegible]! I am considering the subject of "closing up" that dictionary. but do not "feel to [illegible]" whether to do it on St Ras[illegible] day or not. Ah[illegible]!ah[illegible] I have not yet had the courage to present that prescription to the [illegible] but feel that I must not procrastinate much longer as my [illegible] now amount to the aggregate sum of [illegible]. Ahem! Ahem David says that if you Dan & Emma come to Portage to make a visit he will favor you with a …

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Letter From Anne W. Cheney To John Muir, 1875 Jan 1., Anne W. Cheney Dec 1874

Letter From Anne W. Cheney To John Muir, 1875 Jan 1., Anne W. Cheney

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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return till the first of May, fathers health does not allow him to remain in our cold & miserable climate; I had hoped to go to Cala. this fall more particularly since my dear friend Miss Bakefield has returned, but it is so far away, we do not feel like leaving part of our family behind, & as Harry is in business, & Lu & Rob at school, it is impossible for them to go with us. I wish you could meet Miss Bakefield, for I know you would like her,

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Home Friday Jan. 1st 1875

My …

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Letter From [Ann G. Muir] To Dan[Iel H. Muir], 1874 Sep 25., Ann G. Muir Sep 1874

Letter From [Ann G. Muir] To Dan[Iel H. Muir], 1874 Sep 25., Ann G. Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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the girls and I might come to Hamilton — I rode out to Sarahs pleasant home yesterday every thing there looks well and thrifty — they were all as busy as bees they reminded me of [underlined: long] [underlined: ago] Will you please to drop a line at your earliest convenience to let us know what the prospects are – Love from all to you both, hoping to see you soon I remain your affectionate Mother ————


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1874 Portage Sept. 25th

Dear Danl,

I received yours of Sept. 6th and felt highly gratified to know that you were …

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Letter From John Muir To [Jeanne C.] Carr, [1874 Sep]., John Muir Aug 1874

Letter From John Muir To [Jeanne C.] Carr, [1874 Sep]., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

7. [Sept, 1874] Yosemite ValleyDear Mrs Carr. Here again are pine trees & the wind & living rock & water. Ive met two of my ousels on one of the peelbe ripples of the river where I used to be with them. Most of the meadow gardens are disenchanted & dead, yet I found a few mint spikes & asters & brave sunful golden rods & a patch of the tiny mimalas that has two spots on each lip The fragrance & the color o& the form, & the whole spiritual expression of golden rods are hopeful & strength = …

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Letter From [Ann G. Muir] To Daniel [H. Muir], [1874 Aug 10]., Ann G. Muir Aug 1874

Letter From [Ann G. Muir] To Daniel [H. Muir], [1874 Aug 10]., Ann G. Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[in margin: of letter to “Dear Daniel” from “your [mother)?]]

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Dear Brother

“Who ir ee comin on, and ire e weel” I am brim full of astonishment at the silence which has followed my visit and begin to think that it must be I did not make a good impresssion. Why does Emma never write to me. I have wait ed and waited for an answer to my letter but it has never come. I trust however that ere long we shall have something more satisfactory than even a letter I wish you could all make us a visit …

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Letter From Anne W. Cheney To John Muir, 1874 Augl 9., Anne W. Cheney Aug 1874

Letter From Anne W. Cheney To John Muir, 1874 Augl 9., Anne W. Cheney

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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& I hope to go with him, but our family affairs are so uncertain that I may be obliged to stay at home to take care of the children; however I look forward to a winter in Cal. as the only bright spot in the coming year, & shall be very much disappointed to be obliged to give it up. [illegible] more now, writing this we, as well as everything else – With kindest regards from all truly your friend Anna [illegible]. Cheney

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Home Sunday Aug. 9th 1874

My dear Mr. Muir.

I have been on a …

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Letter From N. D. Stebbins To John Muir, 1874 Augl 7., N. D. Stebbins Aug 1874

Letter From N. D. Stebbins To John Muir, 1874 Augl 7., N. D. Stebbins

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Detroit, August 7, '74.

My dear Friend Muir:

Today I forwarded a letter for the introduction of a Rev. friend whose wife is as a child to me, and of course her husband I naturally would be interested in. I suppose he would like to visit the University grounds, etc. So I sent (for he left Kansas for California) among others a line to Prof. Carr. I don't know but I am assuming too much. I think that such large hearts take in a great deal without being stretched to any hurt.
I saw …

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Letter From [Ann G. Muir] To Daniel [H. Muir], 1874 Jun 29., Ann G. Muir Jun 1874

Letter From [Ann G. Muir] To Daniel [H. Muir], 1874 Jun 29., Ann G. Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4] this hot weather – she thinks Emma and baby has gone off visiting – We spend a good deal of our time working in the garden when the weather is cool, we think our health is better for it. we will be glad to to have a letter from you – May God bless you all and ever keep you in every step of your journey through life, and when you are done with time, may you have a heavenly inheritance that will never fade away – from your Mother with much affection ———— [1] 1874 Portage June 29thDear …

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