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

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

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Home, Apr 31. [1908]

Darling Helen,

Wanda got home last evening & feels pretty well tho unable to walk much She says it will be 2 or 3 weeks before she can go to you.
Now tell me just how much progress you've made so far in general health How are those rib sores? How is your cough? etc etc.
I hope now to get the business settled in a few days,

ever your devoted father John Muir

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Letter From Helen [Muir] To [John Muir], [1908 ?] Apr 29., Helen Muir Apr 1908

Letter From Helen [Muir] To [John Muir], [1908 ?] Apr 29., Helen Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Daggett, California

April 27 -

Dear Papa -

I got your hasty note yesterday and am glad all goes well at home. Tom also wrote saying that Wanda was getting along well.
Here, the weather is perfect and I am enjoying the good warmth so - and it would be worth anyone's while to make the trip here just for one day of this glorious air.

Lovingly

Helen

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Letter From W[Illia]M F. Herrin To John Muir, 1908 Apr 28., William F. Herrin Apr 1908

Letter From W[Illia]M F. Herrin To John Muir, 1908 Apr 28., William F. Herrin

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

WILLIAM F. HERRINFLOOD BUILDINGSAN FRANCISCOApril 28,1908.My dear Mr. Muir:--I would like very much if you would take lunch with me at the Fairmont on May 6th, the day the Fleet arrives. I have a room from which wo can get a good view of the Fleet as It arrives for anchorage and I would like to have you join me at luncheon,so that we can enjoy the sight as well as some good cheer.I also want to arrange with you for our Mexican trip,which has been postponed much longer than I expected when we first talked about it.Very truly yours,[illegible]Mr. …

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Letter From John Muir To [Charlotte] Hoffman, 1908 Apr 28., John Muir Apr 1908

Letter From John Muir To [Charlotte] Hoffman, 1908 Apr 28., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Apr 28, 1908

Dear Miss Hoffman

I heartily congratulate you on your happy marriage & so will Helen & Wanda as soon as they read your letter. Wanda is in the Roosevelt Hospital but is now much better & expects to be home in a week or two, Her baby boy is fat & rosy & of course a prodigy. Helen is much better but expects to stay on the Mohave desert near Daggett, California (her address) for year or two. She is very cheery merry & hopeful & greatly enjoys the desert weather & scenery. I'm better too …

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Letter From Mary Armstrong To John Muir, 1908 Apr 28., Mary Armstrong Apr 1908

Letter From Mary Armstrong To John Muir, 1908 Apr 28., Mary Armstrong

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[illegible] Buell

SUPERINTENDENT OF CITY SCHOOLS
and
PRINCIPAL OF HIGH SCHOOLJANESVILLE. WISCONSIN

Janesville, Wis, April 28, 1908.

Mr. John Muir,
Martinez, Cal.

Dear Sir:-

Please accept our sincere thanks for your photograph and letter which we have received. They are highly appreciated by us all and will serve to make Muir Glacier more a reality for many years to come.

Sincerely yours,
Mary Armstroug.

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Letter From [John Muir] To Helen [Muir], 1908 Apr 28., John Muir Apr 1908

Letter From [John Muir] To Helen [Muir], 1908 Apr 28., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Home, Apr 28. 1908

Darling Helen,

Wanda is to leave the hospital today, & stay a week or so with Miss Dr Reddington, then home Your Aunt Maggie has been quite miserable for a week or two but is getting better.
Here is a long merry wedding bell letter from Charlotte Hoffman. Wh of course will interest you & all old & young maids - Take eternal care & some day you will see Italy villas, etc etc but now darling & then also your devoted father will be your best lover.

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Letter From Helen [Muir] To [John Muir], [1908 ?] Apr 28., Helen Muir Apr 1908

Letter From Helen [Muir] To [John Muir], [1908 ?] Apr 28., Helen Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Daggett, Cal. April 28

Dear Papa -

Im just ready to start out for a ride this glorious summery desert day, and am well and happy. Yesterday was warm - 98°, and I was out all day basking in the sunshine. O can now take a nap in the afternoon too, for my porch is all wired in. Mr Manson made a neat job of it.
All are well here, and busy as usual.

Lovingly yours

Helen

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To [Theodore Roosevelt], 1908 Apr 28., Robert Underwood Johnson Apr 1908

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To [Theodore Roosevelt], 1908 Apr 28., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

April 28, 1908R.W. GILDER, EDITOR.R.U. JOHNSON,ASSOCIATE EDITOR.C.C. BUEL,ASSISTANT EDITOR.Dear Mr. President:Please do not misunderstand my position on the Hetch-Hetchy question.Human life is more sacred than scenery, and if it were the only alternative, sooner than see the city of California go without an abundant supply of good water I would cheerfully dam up the Yosemite itself!Both as concerns the city and the Yosemite National Park this is a matter of colossal importance. You say:"The question is simply whether they can get, on substantially as good terms, substantially as good a supply from some other source. If they cannot, the Hetch …

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Letter From Theodore Roosevelt To John Muir, 1908 Apr 27., Theodore Roosevelt Apr 1908

Letter From Theodore Roosevelt To John Muir, 1908 Apr 27., Theodore Roosevelt

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON

April 27, 1908.

My dear Mr. Muir:

I have your letter of the 21st. Do not run down those men too much. Benjamin Ide Wheeler and other good fellows among them. I am trying to see if we can not leave the things on the line that you indicate - that is, damming Lake Eleanor and letting San Francisco depend for a generation or so upon that and the Tuolumne tributaries. But of course I must see that San Francisco has an adequate water supply.
With regard, believe me,

Sincerely yours,
[illegible]

Mr. John Muir,
Martinez, …

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Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir], 1908 Apr 26., John Muir Apr 1908

Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir], 1908 Apr 26., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Old Home. Apr 26/08Darling Helen,I'm so glad you found my big boquet so fresh & fine amid the alfalfa & [Gray?] plains I knew you would enjoy it & I must send you another before the glory here begins to fade.Tom said last eve on returning from Berkeley that Wanda was feeling fine, that she sat on the lawn yesterday 4 or 5 hours & expected to be with you about the middle of May. Tom is going to take Master Strentzel to see her this week. Poor Wanda must have been more seriously ill than was at first made …

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Letter From Helen [Muir] To [John Muir], [1908 ?] Apr 26., Helen Muir Apr 1908

Letter From Helen [Muir] To [John Muir], [1908 ?] Apr 26., Helen Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Daggett, Ca.April 26 -Dear Papa -All goes well with us, and I am very happy - "that's nice". The weather is growing warmer every day and makes me feel fine. The greesewood is in bloom all over the desert here, and I found a beautiful pink cactus blossom when I was riding yesterday. My flowers from home are still fresh, most of them, and the plants in the yard are doing well.I received the Sierra Club announcement yesterday. Thank you.Good-bye for today.Lovingly alwaysHelen04160

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Letter From John Muir To [A. H.] Sellers, 1908 Apr 25., John Muir Apr 1908

Letter From John Muir To [A. H.] Sellers, 1908 Apr 25., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Old lone Home, Apr 25, 1908.Dear Sellers;Many thanks for your kind three-score-and-ten telegram. The years these days however laden with care are the only things that go fast.I'm pegging away at Stickeen getting ahead, but at a pace about as slow as that of a starving glacier that has not had a full hearty storm-meal of fountain snow for a dozen winters. How comes this word-work to be so strangely difficult? Why even to dreamy wanderers should climbing Anglo-Saxon sentences be more difficult than climbing mountains? But no soft sympathy may be looked for from hardhea[ed?] Chicago. O pshaw you'll …

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Letter From C[Harles] Hanford Henderson To John Muir, 1908 Apr 25., Charles Hanford Henderson Apr 1908

Letter From C[Harles] Hanford Henderson To John Muir, 1908 Apr 25., Charles Hanford Henderson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

25, April 1908

Dear Mr. Muir:

Thank you heartily for your letter of the 23rd. Mr. Gilchrist and I were sorry not to see you, but will hope for better fortune next time. I am to be a Californian,

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at least in the winter time, and shall look forward to seeing you from time to time and talking trees and other things of worth. I do hope, dear Mr. Muir, that your daughter is quite well again now.

Very cordially yours,

C. Hanford Henderson.

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

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

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Old HomeApr 25, 1908Darling Helen,I am glad your learning to take care of yourself.I sent you lots of roses.We are all well.JMin haste.

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

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

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Daggett, Cal. April 25 -

Dear Papa -

This is another glorious day on the desert, and all goes well with us. I have been out watering my flowers and they all seem to be doing well - some of the geraniums will soon blossom. The blue iris you sent with the other flowers from home, are perfectly beautiful. The buds are opening out so the stem has several new blossoms since reaching Daggett.
The Funks and Van Dykes wish to be remembered to you. When you wrote you didnt tell me what you wanted done with that copy of …

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Letter From Helen [Muir] To [John Muir], [1908 ?] Apr 24., Helen Muir Apr 1908

Letter From Helen [Muir] To [John Muir], [1908 ?] Apr 24., Helen Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1]

Daggett, Cal.

April 24th

Dear Papa -

Your good letter of the 22d came yesterday - I had been thinking of your 70th birthday but couldn't remember just the day. And the home flowers reached the desert as fresh and sweet and dear as though I had gathered them in my own little yard here. The roses are glorious. Mary has a big bunch of them in her house, and all of Mrs Funk's extra pitchers and vases all full of flowers,

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[2]

while my little shanty is a regular bower of roses. When I woke in the …

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Letter From Katharine Hooker To John Muir, [1908 ?] Apr 23., Katharine Hooker Apr 1908

Letter From Katharine Hooker To John Muir, [1908 ?] Apr 23., Katharine Hooker

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]April 23.My dear Mr MuirTwo letters have come for you and I consulted J.D. (not Rockefeller) as to whether they had better be forwarded to the desert or Martinez, and he says decidedly the latter. I was going to send them to Daggett, but I [am?]10003 a mere woman, so I yield.I hope you had a comfortable journey and that Miss Helen reached the end of it without too great fatigue.Things are much the same in this [house?] as when you left it, excepting that there is a large hole in it, that one John Muir did fill. No one …

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Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir], 1908 Apr 22., John Muir Apr 1908

Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir], 1908 Apr 22., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Home, Apr 22, 1908Darling Helen.I was very glad to get your merry cheery letter of the 21st yesterday - my birthday 70. Venerable old child (of Nature). This morning I sent you a fine box of flowers enough for you all. You ought to get it by tomorrows No 8. Wanda's visit Tom says will be made in about a month though she is quite comfortable & doing well every way. I'm pegging away here in my den practicing my old skill in cooking as well as scribblingWis my den could be transported to the desert beside you, all my …

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Letter From John Muir To [Mary J.] Arnold, [1908] Apr 22., John Muir Apr 1908

Letter From John Muir To [Mary J.] Arnold, [1908] Apr 22., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, April 22, 1908.

Dear Mrs Arnold;

I sincerely sympathize with you in your loss of a brother & in you lonely vigils with your mother in the shadow of death - a sad sorrow-laden time however natural & however lighted by hope of blessed immortality in a world free from pain
To live to so grand & noble an age your mother must have lived a happy life, rich in good deeds. Give her Goodcheer & good hope from me & believe me in warmest sympathy,

faithfully yours

John Muir

My daughter in the Mohave desert is getting well, …

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Letter From John Muir To [Alfred] Bradley Brown, 1908 Apr 22., John Muir Apr 1908

Letter From John Muir To [Alfred] Bradley Brown, 1908 Apr 22., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[Original in possession of Mr. A. B. Brown, Alexandria, S. Dak.]

Martinez, April 22, 1908.

Dear Bradley Brown:

I'll be delighted to see [you] coming so far out of the Auld lang syne. When you are in San Francisco, get a ticket to Muir at the office of the Santa Fe' Railway at the Ferry Building, foot of Market St[reet]. One train leaves the city about 8.30 or 9 in the forenoon and one at 4 P.M. Muir station is on the side of our ranch about a l/3d of a mile from the house and distant from the city …

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Letter From Sarah [Muir Galloway] To [John Muir], 1908 Apr 21., Sarah Muir Galloway Apr 1908

Letter From Sarah [Muir Galloway] To [John Muir], 1908 Apr 21., Sarah Muir Galloway

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

April 21st 1908[D?]ear BrotherWe hear that Helen is still gai[nin?]g and are glad. We heard by [Mi?]ss Shayer that Wanda has been sick and is now in a Hospital in the City. I hope she is recovering well from her Operation. We will all be anxious to know.All of us here are in usual health.Mr Bradley Brown is now visiting at David's, I suppose he will be in the Valley before long.Affectionately Sarah.04147

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

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

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Home, Apr 21/08Darling HelenWanda is reported feeling fine, & will visit you in a week or so. Glad you are doing so carefully well. The drouth seems to be near breaking at last. It is drizzly and dark today with low barometer I wish you could the Home hill. Its finer in leaf & bloom than ever before.Remember eternal care against cold is the watchwordEver lovinglyyour fatherJohn Muir

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Letter From John Muir To [Theodore Roosevelt], 1908 Apr 21., John Muir Apr 1908

Letter From John Muir To [Theodore Roosevelt], 1908 Apr 21., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, April 21, 1908.

[in margin: [Acnd?] 4-21-08]

Dear Mr. President:

I hate to augment the monstrous load of national cares you are carrying, even to the extent of reading another short letter on the Hetch Hetchy question lately reopened by Secretary Garfield.
None of the proponents of the destructive Hetch Hetchy scheme seems to me anything like what you Mr President call a decent American citizen, able to represent fairly either San Francisco or the United States.
Damming Lake Eleanor would do but little to harm the park. It would make a magnificent reservoir, & with the many other …

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Letter From H[Elen] M[Uir] To [John Muir], [1908] Apr 21., Helen Muir Apr 1908

Letter From H[Elen] M[Uir] To [John Muir], [1908] Apr 21., Helen Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Daggett, Cal.

April 21 -

Dear Papa -

All well here and everything cheerful. How is Wanda, and Aunt Margaret? All on the ranch want to be remembered. Ill write every day as usual.

Yours

H. M.

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Letter From R.B. Marshall To John Muir, 1908 Apr 21., R. B. Marshall Apr 1908

Letter From R.B. Marshall To John Muir, 1908 Apr 21., R. B. Marshall

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1]Washington D.C.April 21/1908My dear Mr MuirIt was a pleasure indeed to get your recent letter but I was more than grieved to know you had been ill - There is but one John Muir and every one hopes we may have him in health and happiness for many, many years to comeThe delay in not writing before - was because I hoped from time to time to hear something to tell you of your dear Hetch Hetchy - Mr Needham has been working hard to save the Valley but he informed me today that he feared San Francisco would winI …

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Letter From John Muir To [William] Colby, 1908 Apr 21., John Muir Apr 1908

Letter From John Muir To [William] Colby, 1908 Apr 21., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez Apr 21/08

Dear Mr Colby,

The Phelan forces seem according to Call dispatches to be actually making some headway. I have written to the President, but it might be well to telegraph to Garfield on the part of the Club requesting time to show after competent & disinterested examination that the claim made by the proponents of the Phelan scheme that Hetch Hetchy is the only pure & adequate source of supply for the city that is now available is utterly preposterous & without any foundation in fact. And therefore that no promise of any sort, of H. H.y …

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Letter From John Muir To [Theodore Roosevelt], 1908 Apr 21., John Muir Apr 1908

Letter From John Muir To [Theodore Roosevelt], 1908 Apr 21., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

To Theodore Roosevelt[Martinez, CaliforniaApril 21, 1908]Dear Mr. President:I am anxious that the Yosemite National Park may be saved from all sorts of commercialism & marks of man's work other than the roads, hotels, etc., required to make its wonders & blessings available. For as far as I have seen there is not in all the wonderful Sierra, or indeed in the world, another so grand & wonderful & useful a block of Nature's mountain handiwork.There is now under consideration, as doubtless you well know, an application of San Francisco Supervisors for the use of Hetch Hetchy Valley & Lake Eleanor …

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Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir], 1908 Apr 20., John Muir Apr 1908

Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir], 1908 Apr 20., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Home Apr. 20,/08Darling Helen,I was glad to get your cheery all-well letter[s?] of the 17th & 18th. The warm days must be fine for you but look out for sudde[n?] night chills. Tom came from Berkeley last eve with report that Wanda's all right & means to visit you in a week or so.I went to S.F. Saturday, paid Colby your Club dues - met McHughes on the boat. He enquired very kindly for you & told me to thank you for a photograph you had sent.I'm doing pretty well camping in the old home tho lonely working on Stickine …

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Letter From Helen [Muir] To [John Muir], [1908 ?] Apr 20., Helen Muir Apr 1908

Letter From Helen [Muir] To [John Muir], [1908 ?] Apr 20., Helen Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Daggett, Cal.

April 20 -

Dear Papa -

I received your letter telling me the grand news of Hetch Hetchy, last night, and I wanted to cheer too. Oh I'm so glad. And it was good to know poor Wanda is so much better. Now all she needs is a long visit here with me on the desert. Never before, since I've grown up, have I been so perfectly free from all hint of worry or care - I'm grownig happier every day, and younger. The weather is glorious and warm and all goes well. I'm going outdoors now.

Lovingly …

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Letter From A[Lfred] B[Radley] Brown To John Muir, 1908 Apr 19 ., Alfred Bradley Brown Apr 1908

Letter From A[Lfred] B[Radley] Brown To John Muir, 1908 Apr 19 ., Alfred Bradley Brown

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Pacific Grove, CalifApril 19. 1908,John Muir,Martinez Cal.Dear Friend,I am here visiting David, and expect to get up your way before long. I intend to stop at San Jose, and Modesto, each a few days, on my way, and perhaps at San Francisco also. Let me know where to find you, and if you intend to be absent from home for any length of time within the next two weeks.Hoping to see you soon I remain as everYour friendA. B. Brown

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