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Letter From Mary Trout ? To John Muir, 1867 Mar 28, Mary Trout

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

March 28 /67

Very Dear friend John

You are too kind to put yourself to so much pain and suffering to write to such a negligent friend (I hardly deserve the name friend) as Mary I do deeply feel for your great trial. O that we were only where we could do the least thing to aleviate your extreme suffering either by helping to brighten those dark tedious days, or to administer to your wants in any other way. If Hattie was where she could read for you, While I dressed you poor eye and gave you the medicine how …

Letter From James Davie Butler To John Muir, 1867 Mar 20, James Davie Butler

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Henry sends you his best fellow feeling in your suffering, and only mourns that you are so far from his soothing and sympathizing words and deeds. He begs me to inclose you a photograph and a flower hoping your eyes may may bear to look on them by the time they greet you. Fearing you may not be able to read my lines I will inclose them to Miss Merrill, who has volunteered to see that they come to your ears. With prayers that the stroke now so grievous may move in the end joyous. I am, as ever, …

American Christian Review, Vol.10, No.11, March 12, 1867

American Christian Review

No abstract provided.

Letter From Henry S. Butler To John Muir, 1867 Feb 24, Henry S. Butler

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Madison. Feb 24th. 1867.

John Muir Esq.
My Dear Friend. For sometime I have been intending to write you. Ever since my Father's re- turn I have wanted to thank you for the beautiful present you sent me, Paradise Lost, which is among the best of books

With the Dollar you were so kind as to send, I did as you wished, and bought a bundle of candy for Albert Carr one for the Griffen's another for the Pickards, one for the Sterlings, and some for myself, and my sisters; all thank you very much.

I was very glad to …

American Christian Review, Vol.10, No.5, January 29, 1867

American Christian Review

No abstract provided.

Letter From John H. Riley To John Muir, 1867 Jan 15, John H. Riley

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

January 15th 1867

Friend John I seated my self to write you a few lines to ask a favor of you to see Mr O. S. good or Smith and see what they will give me per weak if I can f[illegible] thing her to get there by the last of F[illegible] and the best the [illegible] strait for one year or more if we can get a long to geather longer for John I had a settlement with this man at I am [illegible] his pl[illegible] and he [illegible] me to cut his wood and hall it to his …

Letter From John Muir To Daniel H. Muir, 1867 Jan 13, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4]

I like my home here very much I am glad you find friends. My health is better than it was in summer and I take things a little easier in the shop, and mean to shirk heavy work still more [illegible] spoke turners are on their beam ends about being cut down to forty cents per hundred times are dull in Ind' I wish you could see what a nice room I have but I must leave this chatty unco[illegible]ected letter and go to my [illegible] bed I bed good night with cordial longings for your happiness and general …

American Christian Review, Vol.10, No.2, January 8, 1867

American Christian Review

No abstract provided.

Journal Of Several Visits To The Indians On The Kennebec River, Joseph Baxter

Maine Collection

Journal of Several Visits to the Indians On the Kennebec River

by the Rev. Joseph Baxter, of Medfield, Mass., 1717 with notes by the Rev. Elias Nason. "Reprinted from the N.E.Hist. and Genealogical Register for January, 1867."

David Clapp & Son, Printers, 334 Washington St., Boston, 1867.

Letter From Ann G. Muir To Daniel H. Muir, 1866 Sep 18, Ann G. Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Hickory hill Sept. 18th 1866

Dear Daniel

I received your letter informing us of your moving a little nearer home why did you stop short of Hickory Hill. nearly every day we think of you when we go to that room to pick out good apples we would all enjoy them better if you were here. I am glad to know your health is good. I hope you like your new situation let us know if your wages are sufficient to support you comfortably - Affairs here move long much in the same old tract our farm is let again …

Letter From John Muir To David Gilrye Muir, 1866 Jun 9, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1]

Saturday afternoon June 9th /66

Dear Dany I have just read your Dutch difficulties and am as pleased at the thought of seeing you so soon as you are [illegible]turbed by the prospect of leaving Buff

As for employment here You may come along and begin work in our shop in five minutes afer you step from the cars at $10 or 12 per week and you may remain here winter & summer untill you are gray.

In a month or two you will likely be able to get $15 a week I have been working by the piece …

Letter From Sarah Muir Galloway To Daniel H. Muir, 1866 May 16, Sarah Muir Galloway

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4]

the baby, it is a pretty good one. She is thriving first rate, and has got two teeth she can not stand alone yet but she can clap her hands and chatter her own way finely. Anna & George are at school and are getting along finely. The only thing I feel sorry about leaving Portage for is on account of the school and church, but there is a very fine school house [deleted about 5] a little more than half a mile from our home just in sight they have generally a good teacher there, there is four …

Letter From Hattie Trout To John Muir, 1866 May 10, Hattie Trout

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4]

I am sorry you have not nicer companions in your boarding house Am glad you are not deprived of the privilege of meeting with your flower companions and there are a great many more privileges that we are not deprived of no matter where we roam. Am very thankful John that you do not forget us. I love to be remembered by my dear friends and I don't forget them. You are not forgotten for a single day, and I know I will always remember you, and I ask the same of you for I need very much to …

Letter From John Muir To Daniel H. Muir, 1866 May 7, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4]

he tells her that if she will walk in the fields with me she will find that Solomon himself could not talk more wisely about plants then I, ha, ha! He tells me to go and see her without any bashfulness but I have some of that lavish fear that you speak of and I don't know whether to vent use or not. I suppose that you are now in the midst of friends & society while I have not one in all this place. Dan I suppose that you too are determined to be a machine maker, How …

Letter From Ann G. Muir To Daniel H. Muir, 1866 Apr 3, Ann G. Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4]

Joanna has been spending a week in Portage and has just got home. she wants you to write her a long letter - and so does the other girls - and so do I - I found an old newspaper the other day, and I thought I would look over it - I saw a paragraph in it that I thought might interest you, about Mich- igan College, it was printed four years ago, so there might be some difference now - I enclose it for your perusal Address your letters to Portage City Expecting you will write soon …

Letter From Sarah Muir Galloway To Daniel Muir, 1865 Dec 31, Sarah Muir Galloway

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4]

Dear Brother Daniel, as Sarah has left this page for me to fill, I do not know that I can more profitably do so, than by telling you the text from which Mr Whitney the Babtist Min- -ister preached this evening. You will find it in the second Chapter of Genesis 18th verse, "It is not good for man to be alone", Now Dan as I am always slow to advise, I will just leave the matter right here, for your own medit- -ation, knowing that "a word to the wise is enough'; I was indeed sorry that you …

Letter From Daniel Muir To John Muir, Ca 1865 Nov, Daniel Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[ca Nov 1865] Buffalo

Dear Brother John

You see I am once more in the city of Buffalo and the prospects are that here I will remain now until I can build [illegible]ers etc. When I left home I fully expected to go to college in Oberlin Ohio but when I went there I found that the information I had received concerning it had not been true and of course you may judge that I was not a little disappointed but without crying over the loss of that which I never had had I started for Buffalo and am now …

Letter From John Muir To David And Sarah Galloway, 1865 Oct 23, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4]

Duncan Sterling is not coming this year I have some idea of completing my university course and will you please do this business for me. Send to Chicago for Loomis' University Asbro[illegible] & for Smiths' Differential & integral calculas with these pack up my Looms' Algebra and geometry and Smiths analytical geometry also Loomes' Trigonometry I think that you will find all of these last mentioned books in your parlor send all by express. [deleted The money still in my favor after buying those two books place in a letter, & send by express If John Reid can add …

Letter From Mary E. Newton To John Muir, 1864 Apr 17, Mary E. Newton

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

may your life and health be precious in His sight. I suppose you have heard from Emma of late, that Mr Basset had moved into the Mondell with Mr Pelton and Emily, also of old Mrs Jacksons death. We had a letter from father Newton a few days since they are very well I am hoping to visit them this Summer or Fall. Sister Katie, Willie and I intend to go on East in June. I shall go to my Vermont home first. That would be a fine trip for you to take. You had better go on with us. …

Harper's Weekly

Civil War Text

Saturday, May 21, 1864 issue of the Harper's Weekly. Featuring General Sherman's Advance in the American Civil War. With many lithographs. Cover lithograph: General Sherman's Advance- Buzzard's Roost Pass, Georgia. Centerfold lithograph: Grand musical festival in Philadelphia in aid of the Sanitary Commission; Departure of the Union Fleet from Newport News, Virginia, on May 4, 1864- From a sketch by a naval officer; Arrival of General Butler's advance at City Point, Virginia, on May 5, 1864- From a sketch by a naval office. Other lithographic illustrations include: The late General Wadsworth; Destruction of the East Tennessee and Virginia railroad; Destruction …

Inauguration Of The College For The Deaf & Dumb, At Washington, District Of Columbia, June 28th, 1864, Amos Kendall, Laurent Clerc, James W. Patterson, Edward Miner Gallaudet

Deaf Rare Books

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Letter From R. Squire To John Muir, 1863 Dec 21, R. Squire

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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One could hardly ask for a greater enjoyment, on New Years day, than a warm fire, and there did not seem to be much pleasure away from it, your friends here are well, and you have some very good ones, We do not have very good meetings, this winter, And our school I am afraid will not amount so much, The children like her very much as an associate, (their teacher I mean) Mr. & Mrs. [Teoffer?] wish to be remembered to you with much respect, & Mr & Mrs Hays also, The girls have obtained your drawing, and …

Letter From John Muir To Daniel Muir, 1863 Dec 20, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1]

Old Fountain Lake Dec 20th /63

I was really glad to hear from you uncle Dan (as they call you here), but was sorry to hear that you were about to leave school. but again I am glad that you [evince?] [illegible] sufficient to shift for yourself by [melodizing?] the daughters & sons of the queens Canada. Still I almost wish that this might reach you before you could sing a single ral, I can easily afford to send you a few Yankee greenbacks as I have but few expences and can maul cord wood from gnarly trees at …

Letter From Anna Watson To John Muir, 1863 Dec 6, Anna Watson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Poynett Dec the 6, 1863

Dear Friend

I have been so long in fulfilling my promise that I am almost ashamed to do it at I had my picture taken soon after I saw you but did not know where to send it till after I came home I have been at home now most seven weeks so there is little excuse for me but you must not be to hard on me as I never wrote much I have not been very well since I came home Mothers health has been poor David and his wife …

Letter From J. A. Blake To John Muir, 1863 Nov 24, J. A. Blake

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

about so when you write please tell me about the matter. Rice is not here this term he is teaching. Griffins folks I suppose you know have mov- ed to another part of the town. During this term I have boarded with Prof. Sterling. The Corr. Sec. of the young men's chris. asso. is a new member Mr M. Norton. Our Sec. has been instructed to write to absent mem- bers. I have not seen Mrs Skinner for an age and I do not know much about her. But I must stop for want of paper Your brother in Christ …

Letter From John Muir To Sarah And David Galloway, 1863 Jun 12, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1863] Madison June 12th

Dear Sister & Brother I rec'd yours with ten dollars I was surprised to see so much money It will perhaps be useful before my journey is completed but whether or not I thank you for it very much as shewing your good nature I am thinner than usual and feel somewhat exhausted I have done more than usual though my health has not been so good I delivered a lecture at the examination yesterday upon [illegible]. It lasted over an hour I wish you could have been present to see how smart I am becoming. …

Letter From Ann Gilrye Muir To John Muir, 1863 May 16, Ann Gilrye Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Portage City May [16?], 1863

Dear John As I expect to see you here soon I thought I would let you know how to find us out as we have moved to a different part of the city. when you get to the Elsworth House come straight west about 1/2 mile and you will see some houses, look for a small new barn and a well near it at the bottom of Prospect Hill. I like to live here very well - by going to the other side of the hill I have a very pleasant walk along the side …

Letter From Sarah Muir Galloway To Daniel H. Muir, 1863 May 15, Sarah Muir Galloway

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Fountain Lake May 15th /63

My Dear Brother as David is going to Portage to marrow I thought I would write you a few lines. I often think about you and wonder how you are getting along, have you found any pleasant acquaintances yet is your health good are you in good spirits and all that I wish you would write and tell me all about it is it really true that they are going to send all you run away's from the draft home again that will be rather a hard job wont it Dan to be sent home …

Letter From Duncan Paton To John Muir, 1863 May 7, Duncan Paton

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Markesan May 7th/60

Dear Friend: Yours in reply to mine has just come to hand, and glad am I to learn that you are still persevering with the spirit of a true Scotchman, and that in a good cause. But what are you fitting for John? You tell me that you are studying Greek. I would infer from that, that you design becoming a minister of the gospel. If that is the case John I shall be glad to know that you have so concluded, and I hope to God that I may one day have the honor of sitting …

Letter From Sarah M. Galloway To John Muir, 1863 Apr 29, Sarah Muir Galloway

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1863] Fountain Lake April 29

My Dear Brother we received you letter and [likeness?] three or four weeks ago somehow you looked so sad and solemn I could not help crying over it but when I take into consideration the circumstances under which you had them taken I do not wonder you look so. when I think of Mrs Pelton it is as of one I know and love. when you had newly left home weary unwell and homesick many a time she was very kind to you though a stranger "a friend in need is a friend indeed" and …