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Letter From John Bagnall To John Muir, 1900 Jan 13 ., John Bagnall

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

1822 O'Tarrell Street

San Francisco

Jan. 13, 1900.

Mr. Muir., Dear Sir & Kind Friend:

I received to-day, (forwarded by Mrs. Swett,) the Ten dollars you have so kindly given me for a "Christmas" present. This, so generous of you, and so timely, for my means are limited, and such a present, spent carefully, a little at a time, enables me to buy things which I really need, but, which, if the means were lacking, I should be compelled to do without. Accept my grateful thoughts for your kindness, May God reward you a hundredfold, is my prayer 02653

"When …

Letter From John Muir To Charlie Keeler, 1900 Jan 12 ., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Jan. 12, 1900.

My dear Charlie Keeler

Hurrah for Your new book It's capital I've been sending away several copies to friends & am glad to see the newspapers have noticed it well but feel sorry it did not find an Eastern publisher to insure a wide sale & lots of readers I hope you have not parted with the copyright. The poems many of them are good too but you must get them into circulation through the magazines. When are you coming up? I hope you & your wife & little lass are well. I wish you all …

Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1900 Jan 8 ., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORE, HAYVARD UNIVERSITY.

Jamaica plain, mass, January 3, 1900.

My dear Muir:

Thanks for yours of the 1st which came to hand this morning. I have got to a point now in Crataegus when I have got to see the types of the old authors which are in London and I shall sail on Wednesday with Mrs. Sargent, expecting to be at home again on the 3rd of February This will give me ton days in London, which is all the time I shall want, and time enough here after I get back to be ready for our journey. …

Letter From The Editors [Of The Times] To John Muir, 1900 Jan 8 ., The Editors Of The London Times

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

The Times

PRINTING HOUSE SQUARE, LONDON

AMERICAN OFFICE
No. 290 BROADWAY, NEW YORK

New York, Jan. 8, 1900.

Mr. John Muir, L.T.D).,
Martinez,
Cal.

Dear Sir:-

Under our arrangements with the publishers, Messrs. Adam and Charles Black, we are preparing a large Supplement to the ENCY-CLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, which will not only "bring that work up to date, but with the earlier volumes will serve as a new edition. The enclosed slip will give you further particulars regarding the work and its Editors.
We should he glad to secure your co-operation in this undertaking, and should value highly a signed contribution …

Letter From Wanda [Muir] To [Louie Strentzel Muir], 1900 Jan 2 ., Wanda Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Jan. 2. 1900

Dear Mama

I reached here safely and have a very comfortable room with Hazel Pich[ere?] There are ten other new girls I have lived through a Latin and History recitation and did not get scared. I am a senior so can enter College as a regular in a year. Miss Head would not let me leave out Algebra but there are two other girls about my age who are also begining it so there are only us three in the class and I will

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have plenty of time to make it all up in the year …

Letter From John Muir To Mrs. [Annie] Bidwell 1900, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

My dear Mrs. Bidwell,

I have been homebound all winter with grippe and bronchitis. Yesterday for the first time in four months I left home going as far as Berkeley with one of my girls and today I am laid up with bronchitis, very much to my regret preventing me from attending the funeral. But I hope to be able to make the journey to Chico ere long. Heaven bless and comfort you.

Ever your friend

John Muir

Undated C1900 Jm To Mrs Bidwell P1, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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My dear Mrs Bidwell,

In your sudden Bereavement you have my profound sympathy. The life of your beloved husband has been long in years, longer still in good deeds. And now he has gone to the Better Land. He will live on in the hearts of thousands to whom

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he was ever kind and good.

How can I comfort you? I can only mourn and rejoice with you, pray devoutly God bless you, and repeat that I am ever your friend.

John Muir"

Undated Eliza S Hendricks To Jm P1, Eliza S. Hendricks

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[Page 1]

Thanks for the lovely Rocky Mountains vaccinium remembrance enclosed in your last letter. Please write when you have time. Tell me how fares it with your forthcoming book.

My Dear Mr. Muir. –

I was much pleased to receive your brief letter, written before starting for far away Alaska; and at this late day I am writing a few lines in acknowledgment. Of course I could not answer with any promptness, for Alaska Is a vast region, and my friend John Muir an uncertain quantity – one day here another day yonder. I only know that you escaped …

A Peculiar People, Levi T. Pennington

Levi Pennington

FILE: Pennington0025

BOX: Levi Pennington Bulk Date Range Box #6

FOLDER: Writings by Pennington 4 of 4

Old World, W B. Godbey

ATS Digital Resources

No abstract provided.

Journal And Letters Of Rev. Henry True, Henry True

Primary Sources

No abstract provided.

Biographical Papers: Vitae, Undated, Lowell M. Hardy Do

Personal and Professional Papers

Resumes and Vitae from professional life in Osteopathic medicine.

1900 Ruby Yearbook, John Edward Stone, Edwin Moyer Hershey, Ursinus College Junior Class

The Ruby Yearbooks, 1897-2020

A digitized copy of the 1900 Ruby, the Ursinus College yearbook.

Letter From Mrs. John Gill Lemmon To Mrs. Muir [Louie Strenzel Muir], Mrs. John Gill Lemon

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

(3) It [grows] regions a foot and one [ ] and studied the Sequoias, pines, firs etc. And on one of the trips my comrade husband discovered a fine new lily. A species not-here-before reported. It was a good find in its sunny mountain home. We hear that the big, perfect crowned Sequoia in Rob Roy Canon is not to be cut down. This will be good [word] news to your Father. I am sure, if he has not already heard of it. With best wishes always Yours Truly Mrs John Gill Lemmon

Letter From Margaret Muir To Mrs. Muir [Louie Strentzel Muir], Jan 5, Margaret Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

466 Laurel Ave. St. Paul My dear Wanda— I want to thank you so much for the beautiful pen tray you sent me. It was so dear of you to remember me and the thought of your friendship was a great comfort to me in these days of my terrible trouble. I am not going to try to talk you all that we’ve been through. Our blessed mother seemed in the best of health when in about the home she left us [were] to come back. I want you to know how much she loved you all and how fond …

Letter From Charlotte Hoffmann To Mrs. Muir [Louie Strentzel Muir],, Charlotte Hoffmann

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

My dear Mrs. Muir, You are too good to your children – Wanda and I decided that yesterday after-noon. Mama opened the boy herself so she had the full pleasure of gathering the sprigs of rosmary and all the sweet-smelling things that she loves. The oranges are the fattest and the yellowest we have had, and it is the thanks of the family I am sending, not merely my own. Wanda and I are going to the city on Saturday to see Mr. Keith’s pictures, We shall have a fine time, I know. I am writing before school, Mrs. Muir, …

A Fable Of The Birds To Mrs. Muir [Louie Strentzel Muir], Unidentified

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

1. A Fable of The Birds In the days of great wonders – no matter when- But when language was common to beasts, birds, and men, The birds of the air held a mammoth convention. The cause and the outcome are worthy of mention. It Happened in this wise: One bright summer day, When all of the world was uncommonly gay, Some blackbirds, while happily flitting around, A nest of strange shape and construction had found. It was hung on two limbs of a low-growing tree And was cosy and snug and as a nest could well be It had …

Letter From Louisiana Strentzel To Alice And Mary, Louisiana Strentzel

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

My Dear Nieces Alice & Mary Yesterday afternoon Louie & I had been on a visit in town, returning home late we found the lamp already lighted and our evenings mail lying on the table. Among the rest was a package of Honeygrove papers. Louie at once tore off the envelope and commenced looking them over. I had gone into the dining for something when after a few moments she called to me “Mother. Come, this is news for you” I ran in, almost frightened lest it should be some bad news, when she slowly read over the announcement of …

Letter From Grandma Muir [Ann Gilrye] To Mrs. Muir [Louie Strentzel Muir], Ann Gilrye

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[missing page 1] When your Aunt Annie gets to portage then your Aunt Mary will come there from Phillips to meet us all. I hope we shall all have a very happy time. Has your Papa got home now. I hope you and all your friends are well. I hope you will not be long in writing a letter to me. I send my love to you and to baby Hellen also to your mama and Papa, and to Grandma and Grandpa Strentzel From Grandma Muir

Letter From Mary G. To Mrs. Muir [Louie Strentzel Muir], Mary G.

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Dear Louie, Don’t think your gentle reprimand has fallen on unhearing ears, if I hurt your feelings thoughtlessly the other day I have been paying dearly for it since. I deserved justly the chastisement and I know how kindly your intentions were, none but a kind friend would have spoken as you did, and I write this to thank you. We go through life too highly I fear to observe the sweet lessons of love and sincerity with which we are surrounded. God bless you Louie. Again I thank you. Mary T.

Letter From Mrs. John Muir [Louie Strentzel Muir] To Mrs. Bidwell, No Date, Louie Strentzel Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Dear Mrs. Bidwell The visit you have so kindly planned would I know be truly delightful, and my regret in being unable to accept at this time is all the [ ] because I have so long anticipated the pleasure of meeting you in your beautiful home. Although my baby is 14 months old she has never been away from home, and I dread the first trial of taking her very far, yet I do not dare to leave her even for a day to go only [to] San Francisco since she suffered so long with the whooping-cough. I have …

Slavery, Willis M. Blount

Manuscript Thesis Collection

A history of Slavery.

The Value Of The Colonies To The Mother Country, Lenora Estelle Stillman

Student and Lippitt Prize Essays

A study of the relationship of a colony to its original country, focusing on the importance fair policies in Spain, England and France and questioning whether or not Europeans emigrating to U.S. colonies remain European citizens or can be considered representatives of their countries.

Home Life In Ancient Rome, Bertha Douglass Tucker

Student and Lippitt Prize Essays

This essay documents the similarities between the Romans in 400 BC and Americans in the very early 20th century while also exploring the minor differences in material surroundings, social customs and religious practices.

Women In The Revolution, Edith Goddard

Student and Lippitt Prize Essays

A historical account of the important women behind the men of the Revolution, generally focusing upon General’s wives, daughters and other relatives.

Letter From Helen Muir To John Muir, January 19, Circa 1900, Helen Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Dear Papa, Mama received your letter yesterday, and we were all so glad to hear from you and know that you were not freezing down [over] there. Yesterday and today have been perfectly beautiful, clear and warm like spring, but it rained Saturday evening when Wanda came home, just enough to clear the air so everything smells fresh and lovely. This afternoon when I took Keenie out for a little walk, he ran around the house and then stopped to listen, as though he expected to hear you coming. I take him out every day, or else Mama does at …

The Growth And Development Of English Law, Willis M. Blount

Manuscript Thesis Collection

A study of the history of the development of English law.

Library, Unknown

Reports of the Secretary to the President Student Affairs President’s Correspondence, 1900-1907

Papers concerning the library at Utah Agricultural College.

Letter From Helen S. [Kaufman] To [John Muir], [Ca. 1900]., Helen S. Kaufman

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

6204, Alder Street

Pittburgh

My dear Mr Muir,

Autograph collectors are a bother, to be sure, but if you "great & illustrious" people only knew what a keen pleasure it is, you'd not only readily give your signature, but take to the mania yourselves. Anyhow, I do hope you'll send me yours, -

A sincere admirer

Helen S. Kaufman

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Letter From Wanda [Muir] To [Louie Strentzel Muir], [Ca. 1900]., Wanda Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Berkeley. Monday

Dear Mama

I reached here safely last night. It had rained a little in the afternoon and it rained again last night but it is warm and delightful. Mr Sawyer stayed with me as far as sixteenth st where I met the Fish girls who came the rest of the way with me. All of the girls who got back last night had lemonade in my room last night so there are not very many lemons left. if you have

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