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Letter From Helen [Muir] To [John Muir], [1908 ?] Sep 18., Helen Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Daggett, Sept - 18thDear PapaI just got your letter and was glad to hear from you. Im sorry that you cant come down and visit just now, but I understand how it is, so stay as long as you feel you ought to be up there, and Ill appreciate your visit all the more when you do come. Im well and happy and thats the main thing.I enjoyed our little trip up to04281 Mojave with Tom and Mary, and Mrs Funk and I reached Daggett safely on No. 8 this afternoon. I did enjoy the glorious stretch of desert between …

Letter From John Muir To J.E. Calkins September 15, 1908, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez Sep. 15, 1908. My dear Mr. Calkins, I got home a few days ago from a long visit with my friends the Harrimans at Pelican Bay in the Klamath & have had a fine reviving time & have also got some writing done up there on that much talked of autobiography. Dictated a 1000 or 1500 pages of M.S., mostly a miserable confused mess however that will have to be rewritten again and again. I also spent a month with the Sierra Club in the Kern Cañon country & made a short excursion to Yosemite. I also rewrote & …

Letter From John Muir To [J. E. Calkins], [1908 Sep 15 ?]., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez Sep. 15, 1908

My dear Mr. Calkins, I got home a few days ago from a long visit with my friends the Harrimans at Pelican Bay in the Klamath & have had a fine reviving time & have also got some writing done up there on that much talked of autobiography. Dictated a 1000 or 1500 pages of M.S., mostly a miserable confused mess however that will have to be rewritten again and again. I also spent a month with the Sierra Club in the Kern Cañon country & made a short excursion to Yosemite. I also rewrote & …

Letter From Sarah [Muir Galloway] To [John Muir], 1908 Sep 15., Sarah Muir Galloway

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Pacific Grove, Calif.

Sept. 15 - 1908

Dear Brother John: -

It is a long time since I have heard from you, but I hear from Maggie that you are at home again after your summer outing, and are looking well, and that has made me glad. I see by a clipping that Cecilia sent me in a letter from Ashland, Oregon that you were one of the Harriman party while he was in Oregon. She said she saw by the newspaper there, that your special tram made a stop of two hours at Ashland, but she did not …

Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir], 1908 Sep 15., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Home, Sep. 15, 1908.

Darling Helen,

I sent a Goldberg box 4 or 5 days ago. but if the list you are to send contains things I have anticipated I'll send another.
I added a thousand dollars to your term deposit acct. in the Martinez Bank today You have quite a lot of money coming in soon.
I can't well leave now - so much busieness to look after - 3 more deeds or 4 soon to be sent you for signature & grapes to ship etc & no end of letters piling on me. But when you really need …

Letter From John Muir To [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1908 Sep 15., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

his visit with Mr. Harriman. also trip with Sierra Club
he wrote Stickeen at Harrimans at my request.

Martinez, Sep. 15, 1908.

he thanks me for finding Van Dykes for his Helen. It saved her life

My dear Mr Lukens,

I got home a few days ago from a long visit with my friend Harriman at Pelican Bay in the Klamath country. & have had a fine reviving time & also have got some writing done up there.
I also spent a month with the Sierra Club in the Kern Canon country, & made a short excursion to Yosemite I …

Letter From Helen [Muir] To [John Muir], [1908 ?] Sep 14 ., Helen Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Daggett, Sept. 14th

Dear Papa

The fine Goldberg box reached me safely yesterday and everything is in fine shape. The three pineapples are the best ever - I had some for my breakfast this morning. The baby says her candy is "awful good", and Mary is pleased with her's. I see I didnt need to send any list.
Mary expects to leave about the end of the week to

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go to her Uncle in Oregon. I wrote to Tom asking him if he could put her on the right train at the [illegible], if she should stop …

Letter From Helen [Muir] To [John Muir], 1908 Sep 12., Helen Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Daggett, Sept. 12 - 08

Dear Papa

I got your first letter from home yesterday. If you are not needed there now why dont you come down here, and we can have a good visit and talk over what you want to do this winter. The weather is fine here, Im sure you would enjoy it. As for what I want, you can bring some money when you come, and if you can, we'd like a Goldberg box - Ill send you the list of things I want in it tomorrow.

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Tom sends me fruit right along so Im …

Letter From [John Muir] To Helen [Muir], 1908 Sep 10., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Darling Helen.

Sep.10/08 On way to city.[1908]

I got home from grand Klameth outing Monday eve. My! What a time I had so kind & hearty & full of work, I dictated over a thousand pages of M.S. mostly a hard rough confused mass judging by what I have examined in type-written copy Most is still in short hand & will be typed & forwarded to me from N.Y.
The Harrimans invited me to go on with thorn to Arden but business here & work would not allow such luxury & indulgence.Do you need money - fruit, anything? Let me …

Letter From Helen [Muir] To [John Muir], [1908 ?] Sep 9., Helen Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Daggett, Cal. Sept. 9thDear PapaThis is a fine desert morning and Im just starting for a little ride so I can fully enjoy it. Im well as ever, and everything on the ranch goes on smoothly. Mary leaves us in about a week to go to Grant's Pass, Oregon, where one of Mr Van Dyke's brothers lives. She is going to live with them for a while.I must mail this now so it will go on No 3.LovinglyHelen04274

Letter From Helen [Muir] To [John Muir], 1908 Sep 7., Helen Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Daggett, Sept 7 - 08Dear Papa -I havent heard from you yet but look for another letter today. All goes well here with us. Im feeling better every day and am also growing younger. The weather has been grand, till last night. A rain came up about 2'00 but I woke at once and moved inside, and this morning I think the04273storm is over. This rain is fine for the grain that has just been planted. Tom has kept me well supplied with fine fruit - I got another box of pears - splendid ones, last week.Write when you can …

Letter From Helen [Muir] To [John Muir], [1908 ? Sep]., Helen Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Daggett, Cal. TuesdayDear Papa -I received your letter saying you had seen the Burroughs party off. I think your letter with the money order is at the Daggett post office now for I received a notice yesterday of a registered letter.I am feeling fine & am steadily gaining. The weather keeps nice & warm - had one sand storm this last week, but that does me no harm. I am beginning to take short rides again & my horse behaves all right & [also?] shows plainly that he likes me better than Buel. How long do you expect to stay …

The Pacific Pharos, September, 1908, Students Of The University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

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Letter From Helen [Muir] To [John Muir], [1908 ?] Aug 31., Helen Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Daggett, Aug. 31 -

Dear Papa -

I got your telegram yesterday evening and answered it soon after it came. But by now you surely must have my letter in answer to the first one you sent from Pelican Lodge. This afternoon your second letter came, saying that you would stay till the Harrimans left. It will do you good, and Im so glad you can be with such good friends.
Dont worry about me - Im

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well as can be, gaining in weight and strength, and am contented and cheerful. Im delighted to find that I …

The Liberty Boys' Invisible Foe, Or, Fighting Death In The Dark, Harry Moore

Liberty Boys of "76"

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Letter From F[Rancis] J. Garrison To John Muir, 1908 Aug 28., Francis J. Garrison

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY4 PARK STREET BOSTONAugust 28f 1908John Muir, Esq.Martinez Calif.Dear Mr. Muir:We are sending you our half-yearly account of the sales of "Our National Parks", which have amounted to 188 copies. This is somewhat less than for the corresponding period of a year ago but we are hoping that the new edition of the boot which we propose to bring out next year, with a good many very beautiful illustrations from photographs by our friend Mr. Gleason, will serve to give the book a fresh impetus and a still wider sale and circulation.We shall ere long be sending you …

Letter From Helen [Muir] To [John Muir], [1908 ?] Aug 27., Helen Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Daggett, Cal. Aug 27 -

Dear Papa -

I got your cheery letter from the Harriman's Camp yesterday, and we were all so glad to hear from you. It does me good to hear that you are being kept so steadily at work dictating. Mr H is all right.
Ive been sending a few lines every other day to

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Martinez, to let you know alls well with me, for I didnt know just where to reach you direct. Everything is going well on the alfalfa ranch. The rabbits are not so numerous just now. Cooler weather is …

Letter From Helen [Muir] To [John Muir], 1908 Aug 25., Helen Muir

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Daggett, Aug. 25 - 08

Dear Papa

I havent heard from you since you left, so suppose you are still with the Harrimans. Everything is very cheerful here and all are well. We have had no rain since you left, and the weather is glorious - makes me glad to live.

Always lovingly

Helen

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Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir], 1908 Aug 21., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Klamath Falls,

Pelican Lodge, Oregon.

August 21, 1908.

Darling Helen.

Ive been in this charming camp a week & have been kept so busy dictating autobio stuff I'm fairly dizzy most of the time, & I can't get out of it for there's no withstanding Harrimans stenographer under orders I intended stopping only a day or two but H wouldn't hear of it and ordered me to stay until he showed me "how to write books" I've never been so task-driven in a literary way before. I don't know when Ill get away & get free

from this beneficent bondage, …

Letter From Helen [Muir] To [John Muir], [1908 ?] Aug 21., Helen Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Daggett, Cal.Aug 21 -Dear PapaAs I havent heard from you since you went home I suppose you have been up at the Harriman camp.Warm weather keeps up - about 107°. Im well as ever. Yesterday Mr John Van Dyke left Daggett on No. 4. He will stop off at Grand Canyon, then home. He wanted to be remembered to you. All are well and busy here.Lovingly yoursHelen04266

Letter From Jos[Eph] Black To John Muir, 1908 Aug 21., Joseph Black

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Mr John Muir

(President of Sierra Club)

Martinez,

Cal.

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San Francisco, Cal.

Aug. 21 - 08.

Dear Mr. Muir,

If I do not hear from you by tomorrow's mail, Mr Hohfeld and I will not come up Sunday. I mention this in case I did not make it clear in my letter that I expected to hear from you before coming.

yrs. sincerely

Jos Black.

Letter From Helen [Muir] To [John Muir], [1908 ?] Aug 18., Helen Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Daggett, Cal. Aug. 1[8?]Dear PapaAll goes well here and Im feeling fine as ever. It has been warmer the last few days - grand clear weather - good for watermelons. Mr J.C. Van Dyke will have to go east in a few days. The chimney isnt finished yet but the fireplace looks well. All my cat family are flourishing. Tell Wanda to write when she has time.Always yoursHelen04265

Letter From A. Ross Matheson To John Muir, 1908 Aug 17., A. Ross Matheson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]17th August, 1908My dear Friend MuirI am visiting the Muskokas and also Bradford where in the bygone days of long ago, we spent such happy times together. It is still comparatively wild here altho the stroke of the woodman and the advance of civilization have changed it from what it was in those days[in margin: ] Saturday:Last night as I watched the several hundred fashionably dressed men and women dance in the ballroom in this042642[letterhead]veritable palace I could not help but wander down the years when you were whittling out your wooden clocks or studying an handful of wild flowers …

Letter From Helen [Muir] To [John Muir], [1908 ?] Aug 16., Helen Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Daggett, Cal. Aug. 16

Dear Papa

This is a grand sunshiney morning, with clear bright air only the desert knows. Im feeling well and happy. Hay making and rabbit hunting goes on just the same on the ranch. The fine pears are beginning to be good and we're all enjoying them. Tom sent another crate of peaches yesterday - Ive just eaten seven for my breakfast. Write.

Lovingly

Helen

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1908 Aug 14., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

R.w.GILDER, EDITOR,
R.U.JOHNSON.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
C.C.BUEL,
ASSISTANT EDITOR.

August 14,1908

Mr. John Muir,
Martinez, Calif.

My dear Muir,

I have read James's letter and, if he is sincere, I should say that the way to do would he to ask him to send you those letters. If he is such an admirer of yours as he professes to he , he ought to he willing to give you an opportunity of Judging which are or which are not to he published. If he does'nt do that, you have the legal recourse, if you desire to exercise it, of enjoining against …

The Liberty Boys And The Masked Duelist, Or, Running Down The Night Riders, Harry Moore

Liberty Boys of "76"

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Letter From Helen [Muir] To [John Muir], [1908 ?] Aug 13., Helen Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Daggett, Cal. Aug. 13Dear Papa -Im inclosing the deed which came yesterday. All goes well here except with the poor rabbits. The weather is perfect now - it cleared up the day after you left and is glorious and clear - not hot, (103°) but bright and sunny. My kitties are all well, but Mary is as heartless as ever.04261

Letter From Carolina W. Hotchkins To John Muir, 1908 Aug 12., Carolina W. Hotchkins

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1][letterhead]Hyde Farm,Williamsburgh, Mass.Aug. 2. 1908.My dear Mr Muir,I have just written to the Century Co. asking permission to use your story about Stickeen in a geographical reader I am working on, and I write this letter to arouse your interest in bringing to a greater number of boys and girls this exquisite story in case you should hear from the Century Co. about it.I have read the story to my04260[2][letterhead]boys and girls each year since its publication and it is always listened to with abosorbing attention. They know a great deal about you, too, and your love for trees and …

Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir], 1908 Aug 11., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Home, Aug 11, 1908

Darling Helen:

Yesterday I sent you a large box of good peaches from your own trees, & tomorrow I hope to send myself - will take tomorrow evening number 8.

Ever your devoted father

John Muir

Letter From [John Muir] To Helen [Muir], 1908 Aug 6., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Home, Aug. 6, 1908

Darling Helen.

I sent you yesterday a box of peaches & a box of pears both picked from your own trees. The peaches not good, but with sugar & cream may be made somewhat edible under desert conditions. The best kinds are not yet ripe, & all are under sized from lack of sufficient thinning & lack of spring rains.The pears are the best on the ranch & will be fine in about ten days, after being wrapt in a blanket & kept under your bed in the dark.
Last week we had hot dismal deadly …