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Letter From George Hansen To John Muir, 1896 Oct 16., George Hansen Oct 1896

Letter From George Hansen To John Muir, 1896 Oct 16., George Hansen

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[illegible]Jackson, Amador Co. , Cal.
Oct. 16th. /96.

John Muir Esq.

Dear Sir,

I receivedyesterday your kind note of the 12th., I hasten toaccept the acquaintanceship with you, which is offered in such warmness of expression, that it ranks high with a man removed from this world's activity and achievements.
But as to the business proposition of your communication, may I beg of you to give me instructions to the limit of your generosity after you have had an insight in the list which I send by even mail? - You learn from it , that my collection amounts to …

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Letter From John Muir To R[Obert] Herrick, 1896 Oct 13., John Muir Oct 1896

Letter From John Muir To R[Obert] Herrick, 1896 Oct 13., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Claifornia

Oct 13, 1896

Prof. R. Herrick

Dear Sir-

The Sierra Club will willingly publish a sketch of the life of our esteemed fellow member Mr. Abbott in the January Bulletin We do not wish to limit you in the space required. I think from 2000 to 3000 words could be got into this number. I would suggest that you give a short account of his mountaineering in general as well as the last fatal ascent of Mt. Lefroy. The M.S. shlould be here about the middle of December at latest. a few illustrations might be introduced

Very truly …

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Letter From John Muir To [Herbert] Bashford, 1896 Oct 12., John Muir Oct 1896

Letter From John Muir To [Herbert] Bashford, 1896 Oct 12., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Oct 12, 1896

My dear Mr. Bashford.

The squirrel you mention is the douglas. The species traced northward & eastward glides into the red squirrel of the Atlantic status.
With best wishes

I am every truly yours.

John Muir

John Muir

Mr. Herbert Bashford

Tacoma

State of Washington

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Letter From Robert Herrick To John Muir, 1896 Oct 8., Robert Herrick Oct 1896

Letter From Robert Herrick To John Muir, 1896 Oct 8., Robert Herrick

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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[letterhead]

Oct 8 96

John Muir, Esq.

President of the Sierra Club

of San Francisco

My dear Sir:

My. Edwin Abbot has requested me to write a notice of the life of his son, my old classmate and chum, in response to a request from your society for a short memoir to accompany the account of his last fatal expedition. It will give me great pleasure to put in permanent record my knowledge

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[letterhead]

of his rare and brilliant life.
Will you be good enough to let me know how much space you wish to devote to this …

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Letter From [John Muir] To Helen & [Annie Wanda, & Louie Strentzel Muir], 1896 Oct 2., John Muir Oct 1896

Letter From [John Muir] To Helen & [Annie Wanda, & Louie Strentzel Muir], 1896 Oct 2., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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[letterhead]

Oct 2 1896

My darling Helen & everybody at home

I received your delightful letter a few minutes ago & was as you must know very glad to get a view of you all & everything about the house, We have just returned from the Grand Canon of the Colorado & it is very wonderful & grand & bewildering beyond telling It is not very difficult to reach though it is 75 miles stageriding from here but the road is good through charming forests nearly all the way & is not tiresome. Ill tell you about it when …

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Letter From Joanna M[Uir] Brown To John Muir, 1896 Oct 1., Joanna Muir Brown Oct 1896

Letter From Joanna M[Uir] Brown To John Muir, 1896 Oct 1., Joanna Muir Brown

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Portage Wis.

Oct. 1. 1896

My dear Brother John:_

Your very kind letter of the 22nd Sep. came several days ago. And although you refused my request, yet the loving interest which you express in our welfare is more to me than the simple granting of a favor, for unselfish love is scarce in this world and so all the more to be appreciated.
I cannot however see the matter under consideration in the light in which you do, and so must remain unchanged in any purpose. Too in the first place, to reunite our little family is really the …

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To Charles Sprague Sargent, 1896 Sep 30., Robert Underwood Johnson Sep 1896

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To Charles Sprague Sargent, 1896 Sep 30., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

EDITORIAL-DEPARTNENT
THE CENTURY-MAGAZINE
UNION SQUARE NEW YORK

September 30th, 1890

R. W. GILDER. EDITOR.

R. U. JOHNSON,
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.

C. C. BUEL,
ASSISTANT EDITOR.

Prof. Charles S. Sargent,
Chairman of the Forest Commission,
Flagstaff, Arizona.

Dear Prof. Sargent:-

I am very glad indeed to have your note of the18th of September; and I am communicating at once with the Bacheller Syndicate, and shall write you their attitude as soon as I learn it.
I am still trying to get an interview with the new Secretary of the Interior with a view of pushing along the Montana reservation. I am asking …

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Letter From John Howitt To John Muir, 1896 Sep 30., John Howitt Sep 1896

Letter From John Howitt To John Muir, 1896 Sep 30., John Howitt

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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219 Grand Ave.

Waukesha, Wis

Sept. 30, 1896

My dear Freind Mr. Muir.

Your most kind letter of July was received and I was glad to hear from you but regret you did not receive my leter inviting you to visit us when you were in Wis. You have my sympathies on the loss of your mother. I have lost both my father and mother and I realize the loss so much. I have remained single being the youngest one in the family and having kind of a charge, my last sister who was with me died five years …

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Letter From Geo[Rge] Hansen To John Muir, 1896 Sep 28., George Hansen Sep 1896

Letter From Geo[Rge] Hansen To John Muir, 1896 Sep 28., George Hansen

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Jackson, Amador Co. Cal.

Spt. 28th. /96.

John Muir Esq.

Dear Sir,

While your name ancdreputation as a high protector of the forests of our Sierras has been familiar to me for years past, it is only the other day that I read in the Daily that your address is " Martinez "., though I also find that you are said to be associated with Yale College.
I trust me letter will reach you.
I have been collecting the flora of the Counties of Amador, Alpine and Calaveras , and distribute sets of exsiccatae to many seats of lear-ning in …

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Letter From Helen Muir To [John Muir], 1896 Sep 28., Helen Muir Sep 1896

Letter From Helen Muir To [John Muir], 1896 Sep 28., Helen Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez California Sept. 28,

1896

My Dear Papa,

We received your two sweet little letters yesterday afternoon, we were all so glad to hear from you, I wish I could have seen the cunning little gray squirrel and I would like to look down the steep road you drove along.
The little ferns you brought us enjoyed the rain immensely and look so happy and healthy and green and the little trees are growing.
The red geraniums are blooming

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finely. we had a big rain that made the ground very muddy and started the grass to growing it hurt …

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Letter From John Muir To [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1896 Sep 25., John Muir Sep 1896

Letter From John Muir To [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1896 Sep 25., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

on trip with U.S. Forest Commission

[letterhead]

[in margin: Mrs. Lukens & Mr. Jones [illegible] the little one I am ever Yrs John Muir]

Sep. 25th 1896

My dear Mr. Lukens

We have been up the San Bernardino Mts to Squirrel Inn & along the ridge & down by city creek canon - a fine instructive trip.
I am traveling with the U.S. Forestry Commission & have been nearly all summer inspecting forests in general, parks & reservations, the Commission was appointed by the National Academy of Sciences, at request of the Government & the members are Prof. C. S. …

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Letter From John Muir To [Annie] Wanda & Helen [Muir], 1896 Sep 25., John Muir Sep 1896

Letter From John Muir To [Annie] Wanda & Helen [Muir], 1896 Sep 25., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

September 25, 1896

My dear babies Wanda & Helen

I wish you could have seen the fine shaggy wild mountains & woods I saw yesterday & the grand scenery above a white rolling sea of fog, but I would have been awfully afraid the carriage would have fallen over the steep rocks along the fronts of which the road was cut. There is a very handsome gray squirrel in the hotel here here in a big cage, they let him out every morning to scamper about the office & he is then just too handsome & ridiculously funny for …

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Letter From John Muir To Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1896 Sep 25., John Muir Sep 1896

Letter From John Muir To Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1896 Sep 25., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Sep. 25. 1896

Dear Louie

From Los Angeles we came here the day before yesterday arriving at 7.30, P.M. engaged a stout spring wagon with four horses & started next morning up the San Bernardino Mountains to Squirel Inn on the summit of the range a distance of 24 miles Here we found a firm forest of sugar pines silver fir Labocedrous etc_ fine for this hot region Col. Wood took good care of us & showed us telling views of the reservation etc. Yesterday we drove along the dividing ridge between the Orange valleys & the Mojave desert …

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Letter From John Muir To [Louie Strentzel Muir], 1896 Sep 21., John Muir Sep 1896

Letter From John Muir To [Louie Strentzel Muir], 1896 Sep 21., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Sep 21st 1896

Dear Louie,

We arrived here this morning & have just had breakfast, we left Vesalia at 6.15 P.M. yesterday after a rapid run up & down the mountains through the Sequoia Park to the summit of the Western axis of the Sierra. The rapidest mountaineering I ever did. Very unlike my last in this wild region when 20 years ago I made a three months trip from Yosemite with the little brown mule that spoke better than Balam's. We are going in a few moments to call on Lummis, then to Pasadena & San Gabriel Mtns., …

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Letter From [John Muir] To Helen & [Annie] Wanda [Muir], 1896 Sep 21., John Muir Sep 1896

Letter From [John Muir] To Helen & [Annie] Wanda [Muir], 1896 Sep 21., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Sep 21, 1896

My darlings Helen & Wanda

I slept last night in a box called a Pullman Upper & of course feel pretty stupid but I thought of you & Mama the first thing & so that shows I am quite well.
I wish you could have been with me up the mtns to see the pines & silver firs & brown giant Sequias but the road was awful dusty, & long, - sixty miles Friday & 60 yesterday bedies all this railroad business in bunk. The soldiers took good care of no & we saw ten species …

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Letter From Mrs. A. H. Jackson To John Muir, 1896 Sep 21, A. H. Jackson Sep 1896

Letter From Mrs. A. H. Jackson To John Muir, 1896 Sep 21, A. H. Jackson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Jolon, Calif. Sept. 21st ‘96 Prof. John Muir. Martinez, Cal. Kinda Sir- I have just rec’d your delightful book “The Mountains of California,” and wish to return my sincere thanks for it. It is a great pleasure to be the [passesom?] of such a work, but I shall prize it also as a gift from the author. Mr. Jackson joins me in kindest regards to you, and we both hope it may be our pleasure and honor to meet you again in the near future. Sincerely yours Mrs. A. H. Jackson

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To Check The Reckless Ravages Of The Ruthless Denuders Of Our California Forests John Muir And The Other Members Of The Forestry Board Are Now In The Field. Forestry Commissioner Muir On The Work Of Deundation [Sic]. Forces That Are At Work To Lay Waste Our Timber., John Muir Sep 1896

To Check The Reckless Ravages Of The Ruthless Denuders Of Our California Forests John Muir And The Other Members Of The Forestry Board Are Now In The Field. Forestry Commissioner Muir On The Work Of Deundation [Sic]. Forces That Are At Work To Lay Waste Our Timber., John Muir

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

THE .EXAMINER. SAN FBANCTSCOs STJ my ,vt MOBNTJr SEPTEMBER 20, 1896. 23 John oaffi fli MOW THE DESTROYERS HAVE WORKED THEll WAY THROUGH THE SANTA CRUZ REDWOODS. forces That Are at Work To Lay Waste Our Timber- jcaused by "sheep men." Incredible numbers of sheep are driven to the mountain pastures every summer, and their course is ever marked by desolation. Every wild garden is trodden idown, the shrubs are stripped of leaves as if devoured by locusts and the woods are burned. Running fires are set everywhere, with a view .of iVi tag -.tlie gTotiiid t.f prostrate tmtiks, tO …

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Letter From Edwin H. Abbot To John Muir, 1896 Sep 19., Edwin H. Abbot Sep 1896

Letter From Edwin H. Abbot To John Muir, 1896 Sep 19., Edwin H. Abbot

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)


to write it myself, I hope this fiends Professor Herrick of Chicago University (just arrived from Europe) who was Philip's College Chum, and companion in his Mexico town and the ascent of W. [Dana?] and the mountains about Yo Semite will furnish you a really excellent meeting. He not only has been on the most intimate terms of friendship, and knew Philip better than almost anybody else, but is himself so skilled a writer, that he can give you what is worth the subject as well as your proceedings. If this will not be


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Cambridge, Mass.

[letterhead]

September 19, …

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Letter From Richard Cobb To John Muir, 1896 Sep 18., Richard Cobb Sep 1896

Letter From Richard Cobb To John Muir, 1896 Sep 18., Richard Cobb

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Harvard University,
Cambridge, Mass. Sept/ 18, 1896.

My dear Sir:-

I have the honor of sending to you to-day, by registered mail, a diploma certifying to the fact that at our last Connencement the degree of Master of Arts was conferred on you by the University.

Yours very truly,

Corresponding Secretary.

John Muir, Esq.

Diploma
Notice of transmission etc

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Letter From Katharine [Merrill] Graydon To John Muir, [1896] Sep 18., Katharine Merrill Graydon Sep 1896

Letter From Katharine [Merrill] Graydon To John Muir, [1896] Sep 18., Katharine Merrill Graydon

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4]

Berkely.

I want to hear of your visit East & North, and may not now send my sympathy for the loss which is never a light one! It must be a matter of great gratitude that you were led to that bedside as you were. Surely the divine hand was in that you gave the judge's friends much pleasure, as you must know.
I beg of you now to add much to mine by coming Sat: eve; surely it will not be a hard thing to do.

Love to all.

Your friend

[in margin: Katharine Graydon Sept. 10th.]

[1] …

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Letter From John Muir To Helen & [Annie] Wanda, & [Louie Strentzel Muir], 1896 Sep 17., John Muir Sep 1896

Letter From John Muir To Helen & [Annie] Wanda, & [Louie Strentzel Muir], 1896 Sep 17., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

[1]

Sep 17. 1896

My dear little/Helen & Wanda & Mama

The train started so soon that I had to hurry to jump on after talking half a minute to May & Jessie Reid. & so I did not get to the window to wave to you a last goodbye for the trip. So yu must excuse me, for I feel bad about it. We had a pretty comfortable trip on the cars - not very hot or dustry. Mr Magee & Tommie & Fred were on board on their way to Kings River Yosemite & I understand them …

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Letter From A. [F.] Rodgers To John Muir, 1896 Sep 16., A. F. Rodgers Sep 1896

Letter From A. [F.] Rodgers To John Muir, 1896 Sep 16., A. F. Rodgers

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Professor John Muir

Honory A.M. of Harvard University

or

My dear Muir

It gave me Sumum pleasure this morning to congratulate you upon the well achieved distinction accorded to you by an Oed & honored institution like Harvard founded in 1638.
The conferring of an Honorary A M. degree by an institution like Harvard is a substantial public recognition of which any recipient may be justly proud.

I am

Very sincerely yours

Aly [F] Rogers

San Francisco

16th Sept.

1896

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Letter From Katharine [Merrill] Graydon To John Muir, 1896 Sep 10., Katharine Merrill Graydon Sep 1896

Letter From Katharine [Merrill] Graydon To John Muir, 1896 Sep 10., Katharine Merrill Graydon

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4]

You will understand my repeating this request, will you not? I only have my heart set upon your seeing and being seen by this recent friend of mine.
Come early before a possibility of being lost in Berkeley business.

Your friend

Katherine Graydon

Sept. 10. 1896.

[in margin: 959]

Sept. 10, 1896

2530 College Ave.

Berkeley

Dear Mr. Muir,

[1]

I have just written you a note to Martinez, and now it occurs to me that you may be in the city a few days and so I send this in Mr. Keith's care.
On Saturday eve. next, (12th) …

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1896 Sep 7., Robert Underwood Johnson Sep 1896

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1896 Sep 7., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

EDITORIAL-DEPARTMENT

THE CENTURY-MAGAZINE
UNION SQUARE NEW YORK

September 7th, 1896

R. W. GILDER, EDITOR.

R. U. JOHNSON,
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.

C. C. BUEL,
ASSISTANT EDITOR.
John Muir, Esq. A. [illegible]
Martinez, Cal,

My dear Muir:-

I thought of you the other day when hearing of the death of your friend Benoni Irwin, which was shockingly sudden.
I am very glad to hear that you are again with the Commission. As I wrote to Prof. Sargent, I wrote to Hoke Smith asking him to call the President's attention to the Montana Reserve before he (Smith) left office, and I have since written …

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Letter From J. D. Mcgilliway To John Muir, 1896 Sep 2., James D. Mcgilliway Sep 1896

Letter From J. D. Mcgilliway To John Muir, 1896 Sep 2., James D. Mcgilliway

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ESTABLISHED 1860.

ISSUED WEEKLY, 03 A YEAR.

MINNING AND SCIENTIFIC PRESS.

THE OLDEST MINING PAPER ON THE AMERICAN CONTINENT.

J. F. HALLORAN, General Manager.

OFFICE, 220 MARKET STREET. ELEVATOR, 12 FRONT STREET.

ENGINEERING AND MlNING.

[American Newspaper Directory for 1896.]

Among the engineering and mining papers in California, none has credit for so large a regular issue as is accorded to the " Mining and Scientific Press," published weekly at San Francisco. In fact, It fully equals five times the combined Issue accorded to all the others, and the publishers of the American Newspaper Directory will guarantee the accuracy of …

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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1896 Aug 26., John Muir Aug 1896

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1896 Aug 26., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

San Francisco, Aug. 26, 1896

My dear Mr Johnson.

I hope the seawinds have saved you from the deadly heat of New York we have had so much of this summer. I had a fine time in cool Alaska with the Osborns & many times we said as we looked through the lovely eloquent scenery how Johnson would enjoy this & how it would brace & revive him!! I failed to find a way to the westward to learn something of the inlets of St Elias & Prince Willaims Sound. so I returned like a tourist. However I gained a …

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Letter From W[Illiam] H. Trout To [Louie Strentzel Muir], 1896 Aug 17., William H. Trout Aug 1896

Letter From W[Illiam] H. Trout To [Louie Strentzel Muir], 1896 Aug 17., William H. Trout

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

548 Madison St Milwaukee Wis Aug 17th 1896

Mrs John Muir

Dear Madam

I take the liberty of addressing this letter to you, in order to obtain your account P.O. adress. I promised Mr Muir a large family photo, but neglected to get his addresss: often though of it, but hated to interrupt the precious conversation by asking. I considered that I had it in some old letters, but these if I now have them, seem hard to find. So I am presuming on the good nature of the P.O men, to find you, without your direct address; which then …

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Letter From John Muir To Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1896 Aug 16., John Muir Aug 1896

Letter From John Muir To Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1896 Aug 16., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

[1]

Aug 16 1896

Dear Louie,

Im coming home on the Queen Will arrive in S F about the 20th or 21st We go first to N[illegible] for coal & that will be a fine trip missed on the way up. I have a lot of cones young trees, etc. which would be spoiled in hunting Sargent. He is in the Olympia forests & I have not been able to discover his plans after returning here so Ill meet him in Cal. or southern Oregon later.
The Alaska trip was a fine one every way through I failed to …

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Letter From [Annie] Wanda Muir To [John Muir], 1896 Aug 11., Wanda Muir Aug 1896

Letter From [Annie] Wanda Muir To [John Muir], 1896 Aug 11., Wanda Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4]

Have you seen any of the beautiful auroras yet?
Mama sends you the Mazama circulars.
Aunt Margaret is as well as usual.
We have not heard anything more about the Forestry Commission.

Lovingly

Wanda Muir.

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Martinez California

Aug 11 1896

My dear Papa

By this time you must be up in Alaska where it is cool and you can get plenty of ice without going to town for it. The weather has been very hot for several days but last night the sea breeze came in, coof, fresh and delightful. how did the meteors look up in Alaska? …

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Letter From Helen Muir To [John Muir], 1896 Aug 11., Helen Muir Aug 1896

Letter From Helen Muir To [John Muir], 1896 Aug 11., Helen Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)


August 11, 1896

My Dear Papa,

I wonder where you are now and if you are looking at a beautiful Iceberg are you sailing out among those pretty green islands that you told so much about.
I thought a good deal yesterday about the cool blue ice for it was awful hot here all day but this morning there were great fog banks over Benicia and a fine wind is blowing.
Mama is pretty well again so she walks with me all around the orchard and I climb the peach trees for peaches we cant reach from the ground they …

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