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Letter From James H. Budd To John Muir, 1895 Jan 9., James H. Budd

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Sacramento, Jan. 9, 1895.

John Muir, Esq.,
President Sierra Club, Academy of Sciences Building,San Francisco, Cal.Dear Sir:

Please accept my thanks for the copy of resolutions of the Sierra Club which you were kind enough to send me. Will look into the matter as soon as I possibly 8an.Yours sincerely,

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Letter From Sarah [Muir Galloway] To John Muir, 1895 Jan 9., Sarah Muir Galloway

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Portage, Wis.

Jan 9 / 95

My dear Brother John

I write to thank you for your kind remembrance and the New Years gift that you sent me. I intend to use it in a way that will bring a great deal of pleasure and be a lasting benefit. Do you remember the old clock that you and I bought together more than thirty years ago? Well, the shelf that it stood upon, I put up myself, the screws at the upper part of the brackets proved to be too short and unnoticed, worked loose and so some weeks …

Letter From A. H. Sellers To John Muir, 1895 Jan 9., A. H. Sellers

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Jany 9th 1895

My dear Mr Muir--

After a twelve hours delay caused by a grand muster of your beautiful snowflowers in ranks 10 to 15 feet deep on your favorite Sierra [illegible] we reached this city, and would like to see you when convenient.
Mrs Sellers has not been well since our arrival but will I think, be all right soon.

[Truly?]

[illegible] H. Sellers

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Letter From James D[Avie] Butler To John Muir, 1895 Jan 8., James Davie Butler

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Madison, Jany 8 '95

John Muir

My dear Friend.

I should be writing you now even if you had not written me last Friday. It was my resolve not to write till I had wound up your Californian Bible with its closing Revelation on bees. All is now done.
The book was in you an inspiration--and it inspires all who have any fraction of your communion with nature.
Rocking like a baby in the tree-top (252p) you recall my experience 53 years ago when I ran like a squirrel into the main-top and higher, when the mast swung from side …

Letter From John Muir To Jeanne Carr 1895 Jan 7, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, January 7, 1895

My dear Mrs Carr, We are all glad that you so wisily work & bear up under your bereavement. All this passing from life to life however gloriously hopeful is ever sad, & they are truly blest who have the strength & faith to work on & enjoy on without halting or hasting like a star, as Goethe says, or like a glacier as I say.

All those cases of spirit-sight seem strange and most of us have to go on without it as best we can. Remember me warmly to Mrs Conger and tell her …

Letter From [John Muir] To [Jeanne C.] Carr, 1895 Jan 7., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, January 7, 1895.

My dear Mrs. Carr:

We are all glad that you so wisely work and bear up under your bereavement. All this passing from life to life, however gloriously hopeful is ever sad, and they are truly blest who have the strength and faith to work on and enjoy on without halting or hasting like a star, as Goethe says, or like a glacier, as I say.
All those cases of spirit-sight seem strange and most of us have to go on without it as best we can.

[John Muir]

Letter From A[Lexander] W. Drake To John Muir, 1895 Jan 4., Alexander W. Drake

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

January 4, 1895.

Mr. John Muir,

Martinez, California.

My dear Mr. Muir,

I had hoped to have time write you a personal letter before this, but I have been more than overwhelmed with office and home and social affairs, so that I have scarcely had an evening to myself since my returnts; at last I am forced to resort to a dictated letter* and that in cold typewriting, but you will pardon me, I am sure. I have thought of you often, of my delightful visit at your house, and of the hospitality so kindly extended to me by Mrs. …

Letter From Katharine [Merrill] Graydon To John Muir, 1895 Jan 4., Katharine Merrill Graydon

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[marked "Indianapolis letters"]

Berkeley, Cal.,
Jan. 4th, '95.

Dear Mr. Muir,

Your letter came yesterday just as Miss Thompson had left. I did want her to see you. May I not bring her up some bright Sunday? She's rare, an old friend of Miss Eliza's and Aunt Kate's, and one whom we all love.
Yes, do write to Janet a little letter, she needs the cheer which comes from friendly thought. Her address is 946 N. Penn St., Indianapolis. The family now lives in the beautiful new house which Charles bought. Aunt Kate has given up coming this winter. Her …

Letter From John Muir To "My Dear [Male] Cousin" 1895 Jan 3, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, [California]

January 3, 1895

My dear Cousin:

I have already tried to find out what mistake or oversight has caused the irregularity concerning Picturesque California, and will try again. I’m glad to hear that you are all well, and heartily wish you a happy New Year. All the Muirs, both first and second crop, are well this side the broad sea as far as I have heard and I had letters from my mother and sister in Wisconsin a short time ago.

I wish those boys of yours would come out to this grand wilderness and help me to …

Letter From Joanna M[Uir] Brown To [John Muir], 1895 Jan 3., Joanna Muir Brown

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Portage, Wis.,
Jan, 3, 1895.

Dear brother John:

Your generous and very acceptable New Year's gift came safely and reached me just in time to cheer the close of New Year's day. I cannot express my appreciation of your brotherly kindness; for these past few years, and especially the last, have been more heavily fraught with difficulty and trouble to us than any one, not knowing the circumstances, can possibly understand. Walter's long, hard, unsuccessful struggle, with none of the cheer and relaxation of home life, begins to tell very perceptibly on even his strong will and unflinching spirit, and …

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

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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

January 2nd, 1895.

R. W. GILDER, EDITOR.

R. U. JOHNSON,
C. C. BUEL,
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.

My dear Muir:-

Here's a Happy New Year to you and yours.
We want very much to print your article on "The Discovery of Glacier Bay" in "The Century" for May, and I hope that you will therefore go very carefully over your article and put it in its most effective shape^as well as add a general description of the Muir Glacier, and after that is done I hope you will lay your plans for a book on The Glaciers of …

Letter From John Muir To Wanda And Helen [Muir], [Ca. 1895], John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

1 Naughty Willie .} Johnnie has a little wig Its hair is white as snow And every place the wild winds went The wig was sure to go. 2 Wanda} PapaΓÇÖs got a little wig It makes a funny view And when the winds go off to play The little wig goes too. 3 Miss Blaesdal} O let it go and never mind Just take one off your dolly And fix it with a safety pin And then wonΓÇÖt that be jolly. 4 Helen} Now please good winds donΓÇÖt blow so hard Be gentle if you please For when that …

Letter From [John Muir] To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, [Ca. 1895 Jan]., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[Ca gan 1895]

Reid's map is far the best that has been publishedI make's few changes in it. Reid has named, I' see, some of the tributaries of the Muir Glacier. The word Glacier of the Carroll Glacier runs down the main trunk of the Muir, which is confusing. Therefore I have turned it down towards the Carroll Inlet. But worse still, the name Cushing -Glacier is placed right in the middle of the main trunk of the Muir Glacier. Therefore I have moved it back to where (if anywhere) it belongs. Print this name in small type. Also I …

Letter From Jane Mather To [John Muir], 1895 Jan 1., Jane Mather

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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this, school re-opened next Monday.
The frost has been keen here since Sunday but we have only a very thin sprinkling of snow, and from the papers, I see, that fall has been so heavy in the north that some of the highland railways are blocked.
Wishing you all a Happy and Prosperous New Year--

Yours very Sincerely

Jane Mather

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Friarbank

Dunbar

Jan'y 1st 1895

My dear Cousin

Many thanks to you for the book, you so kindly sent, and which I got from Mr. Lunam. I have been too long in acknowledging it, but for a few …

Charles Chesnutt Correspondence- Letter To Mr. Cable, April 1895, Charles W. Chesnutt

Charles Chesnutt - Correspondence

Letter from Charles W. Chesnutt to a Mr. Cable concerning Mr. Chesnutt's return to writing and a short novella he planned on publishing.

Letter From Alexander Blair Thaw To John Muir, [Ca. 1895]., Alexander Blair Thaw

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[in margin: A.B. Thaw on Ode]

36 East 74th St

[letterhead]

Mr John Muir

Martinez, Cal

Dear Sir:

Though it is true, to my regret, that I had not the good fortune to make your acquaintance during ten years off & on of residence at Santa Barbara, I am taking the liberty of sending you an inaugural Ode which I have written, in the hope

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that you may find in it some expression of the greatly simple things of our life, such as I have found in your descriptions of the life of the great Sierras, which I know …

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

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

P. S. No one knows better than our honorable Sec. that if the political patronage attaching to the State's management of Yosemite & the small but condensed pecuniary interests involved were on the Federal governments side, the State would not have one chance in a 1000 on this question.

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Letter From Jeanne Carr To Mrs. J. B. Mcchesney, [Ca. 1885]., Jeanne C. Carr

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

(Original letter in possession of Mrs. J.B. McChesney)

Sunday, [after 1895]

Dear Mrs. McChesney:

Yours of the 14 set me thinking -- and I “believe I have shirked letter writing, and neglected my friends who are good beyond any desert of mine. Browning's line is apropos of this --
“If you loved only who are worth your love That were clear gain, and wholly well for you.”
But even justice compels me to say that I was, and am still very inert, from the long tension, I suppose.
I am not well, but neither am I diseased in any organ …

Business Review Of The City Of Spartanburg, J. E. Norment

Local History

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF SPARTANBURG CITY COUNCIL,
HON. ARCH B. CALVERT, MAYOR.

CHARLESTON, S. C. LUCAS & RICHARDSON CO., BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS, 130 AND 132 EAST BAY.

1895.

Letter From Jeanne [C.] Carr To [John Muir], [1895?]., Jeanne C. Carr

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

482

[1895?]

Pasadena Sunday

Dear John

I have felt like writing you a long, old time letter in remembrance of August days in 1873; but it is impossible to reach personal enjoyments in the midst of so pressing family cares. But [the?] Photos last night recd from Lillian [Scidman?] a Madison girl who now hails from Washington City and who has been travelling in Alaskan waters this summer. Phots of the Muir glacier impel me to ask you to do yourself & her the pleasure of calling upon her at the Occidental Hotel, S.F.
She will be in Frisco all …

Ninth Annual Report Of The Governors Of The City Of Dublin Technical Schools And Science And Art Schools For The Session 1894-95, City Of Dublin Technical Schools

Annual Reports

Report

Appendix A: Successes obtained at the May examinations 1895

Return of Attendances of the Governors for the period 1st. January 1895 to present date November, 23rd., 1895.

Cash account from 1st. August, 1894 to 31st., July, 1895 including revenue account and balance sheet.

Letter From Katharine [Merrill] Graydon To John Muir, 1894 Dec 29., Katharine Merrill Graydon

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[Dec. 29, 94]

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2530 College Ave.

Berkeley.

Dear Mr. Muir,

If you are in the city, or if you can come, next Wednesday, will you not come over at twelve o'clk and take lunch with me?
A lovely piece of Indianapolis (though now of Hai[?]ford [illegible].) is to spend next Tuesday & Wednesday with me and as she has often expressed a desire to see you--knowing you of old through Aunt Kate. I write to ask & to urge you to come down. Miss Thompson is one of the women I hold [rare?]

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If you would take …

Letter From Elliott Mcallister To John Muir, 1894 Dec 28., Elliott Mcallister

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

SIERRA CLUB,
ACADEMY OF SCIENCES BUILDING,
ROOM 51A.
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

December 28, 1894.

Mr. John Muir,
Martinez, Cal.

My dear Mr. Muir:--

What shall we do in reference to the Caminetti Bill which I forwarded to you some days since?
Mr. Geary writes and expresses his willingness to amend the bill as we see fit . I will call together such Committee as you might wish. There is a standing Committee on Parks and Reservations that might be called upon to act. I should be lad to hear as soon as possible in reference to the matter. I enclose …

Letter From W. Boyd Sime To John Muir, 1894 Dec 26., W. Boyd Sime

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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apart from the interest to me as a souvenir of yourself & our pleasant times togehter in Norway & Roxburghshire.
I have not given up hope of visiting you in your western home some day but I am afraid not in 95. I am off next month for a holiday in Southern Spain & the North of Africa. I hope to visit Gibralter, Cadiz, Seville, Granada,

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[letterhead]

HK 26 Decr 1894

John Muir Esq.

Dear Mr Muir

Thank you very much for your book. It was very good of you indeed to think of sending me a copy …

Letter From Grandma Muir [Ann Gilrye] To Helen Muir, 1894 Dec 25, Ann Gilrye Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

To Helen Muir From Grandma Muir, with Love, Christmas 1894 Songs in the Sunshine, Illustrations by Hector Giacomelli, etc. Raphael Tuck & Sons, London, Paris, New York Designed at the Studios in England and printed by the “Rafalith” Process at the Fire Art Works in Saxony

Letter From John Turnbull To John Muir, 1894 Dec 23., John Turnbull

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Galashills, 23 Dec. 1894.

My dear Mr. Muir:
To my amazement and my shame, I find that it is almost exactly twelve months since I got your esteemed letter. I do not know how to apologize for leaving your letter so long unanswered. I meant to write, but time slipped on, and the earth has been allowed to complete almost a revolution in its orbit before I have finally made up my mind to perform a duty so long delayed.
I was proud to receive your letter. It was a pleasing remembrance of a pleasant time, the enjoyment of which …

Letter From Elliott Mcallister To John Muir, 1894 Dec 21., Elliott Mcallister

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

SIERRA CLUB,

ACADEMY OF SCIENCES BUILDING,

ROOM 51 A.

SAN FRANCISCO. CALIFORNIA,

San Francisco, December,21,1894

Mr. John Mulr,

Martinez, Cal.
Dear Sir:---

At the last meeting of the Board of Directors a quorum was not present. The matter for consideration was the Report of the Yosemite Valley Commission. It was deemed "best that Resolutions should be drafted in respect thereto, and adopted by the Board.
The difficulty of obtaining a full meeting was thought to be met in the present manner; that is, the Resolutions being drafted and sent to each member of the Board with the request to make …

Letter From C[Larence] C[Lough] Buel To John Muir, 1894 Dec 20., Clarence Clough Buel

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Dec 20 94

My dear Mr Muir:

Many thanks for the extract from Carlyle or the perils of the Republic. I did not understand that you were under promise to produce it; and I am both surprised and assisted by your tenacious memory in the service of kindliness. It comes in good time for my purpose who we very much desire in the effete East, is a

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1894 Dec 18., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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

December 18, 1894.

R. W. GILDER, EDITOR.

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

My dear Muir:-

I inclose a copy of Caminetti's bill and the report thereon. Of course this bill is not accompanied by a map, and therefore does not show exactly what is to be left off; but I it seems to me very important that you should write to Secretary Hoke Smith, direct, with particularity against the cutting in the directions in which you think it injurious.
1 have adopterd Illegible your view in the February number, but as …

Letter From Jeanne [C.] Carr To [John Muir], 1894 Dec 18., Jeanne C. Carr

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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which all liberal souls were invited with a dancing floor for the young under an enormous oak tree gay with lanterns; a favorite band hidden on the Bank of Arroyo See discoursing & other attractions. I took with me Ruth Ginner a little woman who as Ruth Burnett was in the Univ of Wis in your day; and a lovely lady with (well concealed) mediumistic powers. I, with no more intention or expectation of any occult proceedings than I have at this moment. It was a very gay & festive scene; the band playing & dancing in full swing …