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Letter From Eliza S. Hendricks To John Muir, 1895 Apr 8., Eliza S. Hendricks Apr 1895

Letter From Eliza S. Hendricks To John Muir, 1895 Apr 8., Eliza S. Hendricks

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[Marked "Indianapolis letter"]

611 N. Meridian St.,
Indianapolis, April 8, '95.

My dear Mr. Muir:

In a letter I wrote you not long since in acknowledgment of the receipt of your book, which I presume reached you in due time, I took occasion to tease you a little bit regarding the somewhat "fishy" flavor of your most interesting account of the irreverent behavior of the Douglas squirrels when you sang, or whistled the "Old Hundredth" in their ears. Although I told you at the time that I entirely believed your statement, yet I have had a slightly uncomfortable feeling ever …

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Letter From A. H Sellers To John Muir, 1895 Apr 8., A. H. Sellers Apr 1895

Letter From A. H Sellers To John Muir, 1895 Apr 8., A. H. Sellers

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Apr 8 1895

John Muir Esq

Martinez Cal

My dear friend,

Saturday I read a telegram from the Secretary of my campaign telling me that I must be in Chicago on the 15" inst without fail. An important matter has unexpectedly come up that will require my presence. I regret this exceedingly as wife & I were intending to start for San Francisco the last of this week & make our promised visit to you. When we came here we did not intend to make so long a stay but about a month ago they (certain men who wanted …

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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, [1895?] Apr 5., John Muir Apr 1895

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, [1895?] Apr 5., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Martinez Apr 5.

My dear Johnson

May & June are the flood months in Yosemite. May in the years of less heavy snowfall, June when the snowclouds have yielded a heavy crop. April will not do.
Senator Conness paid me a fine visit yesterday--spent the day with me talking Yosemite & forest affairs. He is heartily with us.
How goes the Tesla Alaska adventure.

Ever Yours

John Muir

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1895 Apr 3 Catherine Hittell To Jm P1, Catherine H. Hittell Apr 1895

1895 Apr 3 Catherine Hittell To Jm P1, Catherine H. Hittell

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[Page 1]

Dear friend Mr. Muir

I suppose Mrs. Myrick has told you how we ladies worked to get the meadowlarks protected by the State Legislature. The Sportsmen’s Convention, which met last April, incorporated into their new game law, a section protecting the larks and it was to urge that that section be make into a law, that we ladies sent petitions signed by fifteen hundred prominent persons, to the legislature. Mr. Brassford of Vacaville, chairman of the Game Committee in the Assembly cut out the clause protecting the larks from the new Game

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Bill, saying at the …

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood]Johnson To John Muir, 1895 Apr 2., Robert Underwood Johnson Apr 1895

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood]Johnson To John Muir, 1895 Apr 2., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

EDITORIAL-DEEPARTMENT
THE CENTURY-MAGAZINE
UNION-SQUARE-NEW-YORK

April 2 11th, 1895.

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

John Mure, Esq.

As I understand it, neither the Caminetti Bill nor the McRae Bill, nor Senator Kyle's Bill for a national forest commission, passed Congress. The McRae Bill got through the Houses but was killed by Teller in the Senate. I inclose an editorial on that subject.
Do tell me whether the new legislation in California concerning the Yosemite is a genuine thing. Has the New York reform movement Illegible penetrated as far as Sacramento?

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Letter From I . Rennie To John Muir, 1895 Mar 30., I. Rennie Mar 1895

Letter From I . Rennie To John Muir, 1895 Mar 30., I. Rennie

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

St. Helena,

Napa Co.

30th Mar. 1895

Dear Sir,

I enclose an introduction I got from Mr. Wm. Douglas of Edinburgh, Scotland to you. I have been a week in the State, right out from Scotland. I hope to stay here with my brothers till end of May.
Before then I should like to call & make your acquaintance.
Kindly let me know if you live for from the railway station & if the road can be ridden over

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on a safety bicycle. I could take the train to Vallejo, ferry over, & ride the rest of the way. …

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood]Johnson To John Muir, 1895 Mar 30., Robert Underwood Johnson Mar 1895

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood]Johnson To John Muir, 1895 Mar 30., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

March 30. 1895

Dear Muir:

What month witnesses the greatest floods in Yosemite? I am writing something about Webster & I compare him to the voice of Sierra.
"So speaks Sierra when the vernal flood" etc., etc
Would April flood do?

Yours ever.

R. U. J.

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1895 Mar 26., Robert Underwood Johnson Mar 1895

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1895 Mar 26., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

EDITORIAL-DEPARTMENT THE CENTURY-MAGAZINE UNION-SQUARE-NEW-YORK

R. W. GILDER, EDITOR.

R. U. JOHNSON,

ASSOCIATE EDITOR.

C. C. BUEL,
ASSISTANT EDITOR.

Mar ch 26th, 1895.

My dear Muir:-

The inclosed from Prof. Bryce will interest you. I think he told me before the circumstances under which he missed you.

Yours Ever

R. U. Johnson

Mr. John Muir,

Martinez, Cal.

"The Discovery of Glacier Boy" is to go into the June no. The other will appear as soon as we can get adequate illustration

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Letter From John Muir To [Katharine Merrill] Graydon, 1895 Mar 25., John Muir Mar 1895

Letter From John Muir To [Katharine Merrill] Graydon, 1895 Mar 25., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, March 25, 1895

My dear Miss Graydon,

Tell Professor & Mrs Anderson that we deeply sympathize with them in their terrible loss--but in the presence of death all speech seems out of place. God grant them light & strength in their bereavement the boy will not come back to them but they will go to him in the better land.
Come when you can

Ever your friend

John Muir


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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1895 Mar 23., John Muir Mar 1895

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1895 Mar 23., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez March 23, 1895

My dear Mr Johnson,

Yes, come on & I'll go with you to Alaska or any other wild where! Fiery Tesla of course ought to go to Alaska to blend his fire & Aurora in ice. I'm sorry for Tesla in loosing his models & papers etc but not half so sorry as you are. As an inverntor I know that everything is saved in his own brain. & no burning that spares Tesla can possibly be very significant. Now do come & I'll go. Mrs. M. is wild to see Tesla.
I'm glad to learn …

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Letter From Anna Merrill Foster To [Annie L. Muir], 1895 Mar 18., Anna Merrill Foster Mar 1895

Letter From Anna Merrill Foster To [Annie L. Muir], 1895 Mar 18., Anna Merrill Foster

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[Marked " Indianapolis letters"] [Evidently Miss Annie Muir is the one here addressed]
Pasadena, March 18, '95.

Dear Miss Muir:

Perhaps you are out here by this time, too. The little Phoebe was growing so thin and weak shut up within the brick walls of Baltimore that I at last consented to accept my father's oft-repeated invitation and go to them in California. Such separations are very hard, and I hope we shall never be compelled to do such a thing again. But Phoebe is thriving here and my father and mother are less lonely. My brother Sam is managing …

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Letter From Harriet N. Conness To John Muir, 1895 Mar 18., Harriet N. Conness Mar 1895

Letter From Harriet N. Conness To John Muir, 1895 Mar 18., Harriet N. Conness

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Berkeley, March 18, '95.

Prof. John Muir,
Dear Sir:

My silence is due to the sudden death of a relative by marriage. Mr. Olin Johnson of the "Union Lumber Co." -- his son was to furnish much for the entertainment. He was hurriedly called away east to attend his father's funeral, so the redwood day is set for April 1st, You cannot know how we all regret that you cannot favor us. Thank you much for the address sent. I will get Prof. Joseph LeConte to help me with it, and it must do vicarious duty. And now I wish …

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Letter From Catharine Merrill To John Muir, 1895 Mar 16., Catharine Merrill Mar 1895

Letter From Catharine Merrill To John Muir, 1895 Mar 16., Catharine Merrill

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

227 North Capital Avenue
Indianapolis

March 16, 1895

My dear Mr Muir.

I did not want to write to you until I should have read your book, so that I could tell you exactly what I think of it. But I must not delay longer or you will think me an ingrate, a reprebate, and everything bad.
I am really very grateful for the kind remembrance and for the beautiful book, the noble book, as the Dial calls it, and well calls it I judge from as much as I have read.
You ought to be a happy man, Mr …

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1895 Mar 15., Robert Underwood Johnson Mar 1895

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1895 Mar 15., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1]

Private

[letterhead]

March 15 1895

Dear Muir:

Your second article is admirably done, and we will try to get it in during the summer, as soon as we can get the rest of the pictures made. Thanks loud and deep.
You have doubtless seen that poor Tesla has been burned out. His laboratory and all it contained is in ashes--all

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[2]

his records notes, plans, historical [instruments?], his great inventions, which are to be described in the April Century by the way. It is a great public calamity. However, he has friends with money and if his health …

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1895 Mar 14., Robert Underwood Johnson Mar 1895

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1895 Mar 14., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

March 14" 1895

Dear Muir:

The Glacier Bay goes into June with a slight squeeze. It contains some of your best writing and is altogether satisfactory. Thanks.
I am just about to read the other.
Sargent is delighted with your book.

Faithfully yours,

R. H. Johnson

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Letter From Agnes Kelly To John Muir, 1895 Mar 12., Agnes Kelly Mar 1895

Letter From Agnes Kelly To John Muir, 1895 Mar 12., Agnes Kelly

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Dunbar, 12th March '95.

My dear Mr. Muir:

I am sending you the book of Mr. Egerton Young, and hope he may be the friend whom you knew. Anyway, the "Canoe and Dog Train," is interesting in its own way, particularly to those who know something of the N. W. Territories. My son Charlie saw those dog trains starting from Winnipeg for the far west the year he first went out, so it interested me not a little. Anyway you will accept it as a remembrance of me, who am very proud of being acquainted with you. It will remind …

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1895 Mar 11., Robert Underwood Johnson Mar 1895

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1895 Mar 11., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

EDITORIAL-DEEPARTMENT THE CENTURY-MAGAZINE UNION-SQUARE-NEW-YORK

March 11th, 1895.
R. W. GILDER, EDITOR.
R. U. JOHNSON,
ASSOCIATE EDITOR. C. C. BUEL,
ASSISTANT EDITOR.

My dear Mure :-

1 am delighted, but not surprised, that Sir JosephHooker is pleased with your book.
Now go to work and put your scientific ideas about Alas ka into book form.The Alaska Trip is here, 1 am now doing my best to get the Glacier Bay article into the June number, which we should very much like to do, 1 will write to you as soon as I know definitely. The pictures are being tinkered.John Muir, Esq, …

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Letter From A [Lexander] W. Drake To John Muir, 1895 Mar 7., Alexander W. Drake Mar 1895

Letter From A [Lexander] W. Drake To John Muir, 1895 Mar 7., Alexander W. Drake

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

March 7, 1895.

Mr. John Muir,
Martinez, Cal.

Dear Mr. Muir,

I have just returned from a trip to Charleston, S.C. and find your letter of February 22nd, containing the proofs of the cuts for your articles. We have rejected the one you think useless and will try to have the changes you suggest made in the others. The engraving of Mr. Hill's picture is finished, and under the circumstances I think it has turned out very well. It was a difficult subject, without the painting at hand for the engraver to consult, but we have done the best we …

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Letter From J. E. Mathewson To John Muir, 1895 Mar 5., J. E. Mathewson Mar 1895

Letter From J. E. Mathewson To John Muir, 1895 Mar 5., J. E. Mathewson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

5th March 1895

Dear friend Muir,

I duly received your two letters, but business affairs have compelled me to put off replying to same from time to time until now. The last letter I could not lay my hands upon, when on the point of starting from home on Saturday last, so you must excuse me if any questions are not answered. Of course you visited this gay city when you were over here. Have been over some fifteen or twenty times, but a day or so always satisfies one & am therefore glad to be on my way …

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Letter From Joanna M[Uir] Brown To [John Muir], 1895 Mar 2., Joanna Muir Brown Mar 1895

Letter From Joanna M[Uir] Brown To [John Muir], 1895 Mar 2., Joanna Muir Brown

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Portage, Wis.,
March 2, 1895.

My dear brother John:

Several days have been allowed to pass since your letter with its important contents was received. But the truth is, I have scarcely felt equal to the expression of my feelings to you.
The experiences of the past few years have been so overwhelming that sometimes I feel too confused to understand my own feelings. But one thing I do know -- that no twenty-five dollars ever was more welcome. Surely the Father Himself must have inclined you to the kind act. Yet I cannot deny that there is a good …

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Letter From Julia Merrill Moores To [John Muir], 1895 Feb 28., Julia Merrill Moores Feb 1895

Letter From Julia Merrill Moores To [John Muir], 1895 Feb 28., Julia Merrill Moores

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[Marked "Indianapolis letters"]

946 N. Pa. St.,
Feb. 28th, 1895,

My dear friend,

No one can write such letters as John Muir! I said to the children, "It has been a long time since we have had such a love letter" as yours of Feb. 18th. We thank you for it. I thank you for your sweet expression of love and joy over Janet's recovery. It heartened me and gave me hope. And it did her a world of good. Then too the letter was so quickly followed by the beautiful book, your own handiwork -- a part of your …

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Letter From [Author Unknown] To John Muir, 1895 Feb 27., Unidentified Feb 1895

Letter From [Author Unknown] To John Muir, 1895 Feb 27., Unidentified

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Berkeley. Feb. 27. '90

John Muir:

Dear Sir,

With the endorsement of Mr. Wm Keith I have found courage to write you to grant a great favor to the women of "Sorosis" a S. F. Branch of New York Sorosis founded by Jennie June and the Cary sisters twenty-eight years ago.
Literature, art, science, Philanthropy and whatever tends to broaden and uplift is for our consideration.
As one of the organizers of the Club in San Francisco, I am desirous to interest the members in the development of the State of Cal.

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to do this they …

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Letter From S. E. Bridgman To John Muir, 1895 Feb 25., S. E. Bridgman Feb 1895

Letter From S. E. Bridgman To John Muir, 1895 Feb 25., S. E. Bridgman

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Northampton, Mass., Feb. 25, 1895.

Mr. John Muir,
My dear Sir:

As an old bookseller of over 50 years standing, I seem in some way to be a partner with the author, and so dare ask a favor of you.
I send "Mts. of Cal." by this mail, and if agreeable give me a pleasant thought and your signature on title-page or fly-leaf for my own private library. My wife and self have been in the Yo-Semite and in your section, and before facing "Muir Glacier on board "The Queen" Mrs. Bridgman had the dimensions, the general idea of that …

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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1895 Feb 23., John Muir Feb 1895

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1895 Feb 23., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Martinez, Feb. 23, 1895

My dear Mr Johnson,

I send you today the Alaska trip by registered mail. I think it reads pretty well though its tail is slightly scrawny after pulling out so many of its plumes for the Glacier Bay article. There is a good deal in it & it cannot I think fail to interest tourists.
I had a letter the other day from Sir Joseph Hooker saying he had just finished reading the last page of my book & that he didn't know when he had ever read anything that gave him so much pleasure …

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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, [1895?] Feb 21., John Muir Feb 1895

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, [1895?] Feb 21., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

RWG. Thanks RW

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Martinez, Feb 21,

My dear Mr. Johnson,

M. S. received & am hard at work on it making the changes you suggest. Will return it by Ex in a day or two.
Shall make a straight tourist trip & another of discovery.
Im glad to get another lick at it as I am never satisfied with anything I write. Am nearly done with the first article. The compensation check was ample & I am oblidged, & ever

Your friend John Muir

Bancroft Library

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Letter From A[Lexander] W. Drake To John Muir, 1895 Feb 18., Alexander W. Drake Feb 1895

Letter From A[Lexander] W. Drake To John Muir, 1895 Feb 18., Alexander W. Drake

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

February 18, 1895

Mr. John Muir,
Martinez, Cal.

Dear, Mr. Muir,
I have Just received your kind letter of February 10th, and also a letter from Thomas Hill, giving us full permission to reproduce his-picture for the Century Magazine. The only request he makes is that we shall do the picture Justice in our reproduction. I hope to get something fine out of it. I am sorry, however, that we cannot have the original painting for the engraver to consult. It would-help him so much, as the photographs are so obscure in parts.
I send you herewith a set of …

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Letter From Dewitt Miller To [John Muir], 1895 Feb 16., Dewitt Miller Feb 1895

Letter From Dewitt Miller To [John Muir], 1895 Feb 16., Dewitt Miller

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Feb 16 -- 95

Dear Sir:

If it should be your pleasure, on a fly leaf of th. copy of your book wh. went to you a few days ago, to write a line or two and to add your name th. date and the place and the words: done for Dweitt Miller, I should be alike gratified and grateful.
Postage stamps for the

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return of the book to me at the Union League (Club) Philadelphia or better because it will the sooner reach me--at [Dramer?] 162 Phila--are sent herewith.

Sincerely:

Dewitt Miller

John Muir

16 Feb '95

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Letter From Sarah [Muir Galloway] To John Muir, 1895 Feb 15., Sarah Muir Galloway Feb 1895

Letter From Sarah [Muir Galloway] To John Muir, 1895 Feb 15., Sarah Muir Galloway

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Portage. Wis.

Feb. 15th / 95

My dear Brother John

You asked me to keep you informed in regard to Joanna's affairs. I have just found out that she is greatly in need of help just now as Walter has been able to send her only nine dollars since some time in Nov. She has quite a bill run up for needed provision and at present Walter has no way of earning money to send her. He says the water business is dead just now. there is so

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much snow that he cannot get his wagon out. and if …

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Letter From A[Lexander] W. Drake To John Muir, 1895 Feb 14., Alexander W. Drake Feb 1895

Letter From A[Lexander] W. Drake To John Muir, 1895 Feb 14., Alexander W. Drake

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

February 14, 1895.

Mr. John Muir,
Martinet, Cal.
Dear Mr. Muir,
Glad to know that the article is on the way Ihope you have not forgotten to tell me which pictures wewould better reject. It will be a great help to me. I havethe Hill picture of Muir Glacier in the hands of a splendidengraver and hope to get a good result. I will send you aproof as soon as it is finished.

Yours sincerely.
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beneath the gl. The form of the front also changed, being much more regular than formerly. A bold cape jutted far out from …

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Letter From Eliza Hendricks To John Muir, 1895 Feb 11., Eliza S. Hendricks Feb 1895

Letter From Eliza Hendricks To John Muir, 1895 Feb 11., Eliza S. Hendricks

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

home life once more.
It is a long time since I have received a letter from you. Could you not find time and inclination to answer this letter? I should be most happy to hear from you. We hear of you occasionally through Kate Grayden's letters, but not so fully as would be pleasant.

Very sincerely your friend,

Eliza S. Hendricks.

I hope Mrs. Muir and your bright little girls are well. My mother, and other members of the family wish to be most cordially remembered to you. E. S. H.

611 North Meridian St.

Indianapolis February 11 '95

Dear …

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