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Letter From John P. Irish To John Muir, 1890 Sep 1., John P. Irish Sep 1890

Letter From John P. Irish To John Muir, 1890 Sep 1., John P. Irish

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

BOARD OF YOSEMITE VALLEY AND BIG TREE GROVE COMMISSIONERS.

213 GRANT AVENUE.
26 Montgomery St., Room 6,

San Francisco,
September 1st 1890

Mr. John Muir,
My Dear Sir,
In the "Century" for August you speak of hogs and cattle and the plow and ax rapidly destroying the Yosemite Valley.
I am anxious to secure evidence and information concerning the Valley, and know of no better source than yourself. Will you kindly let me know when you saw hogs roaming at large in the Valley, and whether the ax has been used there to clear fields for the plow, and by …

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Letter From John Muir To Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1890 Aug 29., John Muir Aug 1890

Letter From John Muir To Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1890 Aug 29., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Tacoma Hotel,

Tacoma

Aug. 29th 90

Dear Louie

The answer to my Victoria telegram was a grand & much needed relief. The letter with the terrible news reached me by the Queen on her trip preceding this one but I did not see it until she sailed, for when yours & the childrens letters were handed me the cabin was full of excited visitors all talking & I ran through them hastily without noticing the dreadful news. As soon as the Queen sailed I took a quick reading of them all & when I discovered Helens condition I varily regretted …

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1890 Aug 28., Robert Underwood Johnson Aug 1890

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1890 Aug 28., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

August 28, 1890.

My dear Mr. Muir:

Welcome to your adopted country! Supposing that you will arrive at home about the time this letter reaches California, I send herewith our check in payment for your two articles, including also the use of your sketches.

Very sincerely yours,

R.U. Johnson

I hope you will be able to go to the King's River Canon[diacritic] for I want to have a bill introduced to reserve it - (Can you send me a description of desirable limits?) and second I want to give Robinson something to do. He is hard up and he …

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Letter From Louie Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1890 Aug 27., Louie Muir Aug 1890

Letter From Louie Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1890 Aug 27., Louie Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, California

Aug. 27, 1890.

Dear Mr. Johnson:

We had hoped to welcome home our Alaska wanderer this week, but now letters and sketches have come instead from Glacier Bay. Mr. Muir writes that he feels well and strong, better than any time since he left the high Sierras though he has made a terribly hard exploration of the glacier heights and the icy wilderness of mountain peaks near the Muir Glacier. Although there were many days of fog and fierce storms after his arrival, he has had also

many glorious views in fine, brilliant sunshine, of that wonderful highland …

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Letter From Louie [Strentzel Muir] To John Muir, 1890 Aug 12., Louie Strentzel Muir Aug 1890

Letter From Louie [Strentzel Muir] To John Muir, 1890 Aug 12., Louie Strentzel Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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[in margin: 868]

Martinez, California

August 12, 1890.

Dear John,

We expect that the steamer Queen due at Victoria in 2 or 3 days will bring you on the way home, so I write but a few lines, for the possibility of your coming later, to tell you that all goes well here. Little Helen has quite recovered, and is as bright and playful as ever. We all feel much better, but we long to hear of your safe arrival at Victoria. I dare not risk traveling with Helen, and I can not leave her,

otherwise the children and …

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Letter From John Muir To Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1890 Aug 7., John Muir Aug 1890

Letter From John Muir To Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1890 Aug 7., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Aug 7th 1890

Dear Louie

The steamer leaves in a few minutes. Your letters received & the box of fruit. Have written you in letters that should have gone a week ago in the delayed Elder. Have got back safely from 2nd hard trip last night. Will be home soon. In great haste -

Love to all,

John Muir

Am strong & well but had very hard trip.

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Letter From Geo[Rge] G. Mackenzie To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, [1890] Aug 3., George G. Mackenzie Aug 1890

Letter From Geo[Rge] G. Mackenzie To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, [1890] Aug 3., George G. Mackenzie

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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I am exceedingly unwilling to get him into trouble of any kind. The "grab," however, is an especially greedy one. Leonard I do not blame, for he is a poor man, struggling to support a wasteful half-breed family. If we stop this grab it will show the Washburns more than anything else that would be done just now that we mean business and can effectively fight the monopoly. I think that the reason that Leonard was not sent to "prove up" on June 16 was because I had already told J. J. Cook, (Stoneware House,) and who is a …

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Letter From [John Muir] To Helen [Muir], [1890] Aug 3., John Muir Aug 1890

Letter From [John Muir] To Helen [Muir], [1890] Aug 3., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Glacier Bay

Alaska

Aug. 3.

8 O'Clock

P.M.

My dear little Helen

I hope when the steamship comes next time that I will get another nice letter from you. I wrote a letter to Wanda & now I must write one to you. Wanda's letter has a picture of the house we made in this cold rainy country to live in, & here is a picture of the same house showing the chimney. It is not a very warm house for there are many cracks & holes in it & the wind comes into it piping & laughing at us, …

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The Treasures Of The Yosemite., John Muir Aug 1890

The Treasures Of The Yosemite., John Muir

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

MIDSUMMER HOLIDAY NUMBER. 1 The Century Magazine. Vol. XL. AUGUST, 1890. No. 4. 484 THE TREASURES OF THE YOSEMITE. upon it, nor anything to suggest the wonder- which find anchorage on a thousand narrow ful depth and grandeur of its sculpture. None steps and benches, the whole enlivened and of its magnificent forest-crowned ridges seems made glorious with rejoicing streams that come to rise much above the general level to publish dancing and foaming over the sunny brows of VIEW OF THE YOSEMITE VALLEY I ROM POIN I LOOKOV ON THE RIGHT, THE IIAI.I its wealth.. No great valley or …

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Letter From [John Muir] To [Helen Muir ?], [1890 Aug ?]., John Muir Aug 1890

Letter From [John Muir] To [Helen Muir ?], [1890 Aug ?]., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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sounded dreadful & then they came down towards me & howled & howled, & I finished breakfast & left that mountain & now I call that mountain Wolf Mountain. And I climbed another mountain & a beautiful bird like a hen only far prettier called a ptarmigan let me close up to it & was not afraid, & I saw its beautiful gentle eyes & its pretty feathers & its feet with feathers down to its toes to keep them warm in the snow in winter & the ground in some places was just covered with flowers like a …

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Letter From Louie [Strentzel] Muir To [John Muir], 1890 Aug 1., Louie Strentzel Muir Aug 1890

Letter From Louie [Strentzel] Muir To [John Muir], 1890 Aug 1., Louie Strentzel Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, California,
August 1, 1890.

My beloved husband,

Again three more blessed letters have come to comfort us and rejoice our hearts with thought of your safe return. Your note of July 11 came two days ago, and oh the shadow of it. John, John, do not go any more where those terrible wolves range and howl. Do you have an ice-pick always ready? but that could be but a slight staff against their cruel strength.
Dear John, surely you have staid long enough away in that icy wilderness, though it be most glorious. Wolves and snow-blindness are not always …

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Letter From Louie [Strentzel] Muir To [John Muir], 1890 Jul 27., Louie Strentzel Muir Jul 1890

Letter From Louie [Strentzel] Muir To [John Muir], 1890 Jul 27., Louie Strentzel Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez. California,
July 27, 1890.

My beloved husband,

We are expecting to see you next week on the steamer due in San Francisco August 5, so the children are not writing letters for this steamer. Helen especially is longing to see you, for she seems unable to understand why you should stay away so long looking at the ice, so she says that she "can not let Mama go away too." Oh, if only I dared take her up to Victoria to meet you, and stay awhile in that cool climate, for the cold windy weather here has been succeeded …

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Letter From Annie Wanda Muir To [John Muir], 1890 Jul 17., Annie Wanda Muir Jul 1890

Letter From Annie Wanda Muir To [John Muir], 1890 Jul 17., Annie Wanda Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4]

The days are very warm here now. the North wind blew today and broght some bad mosquitos and they are trying to come in thru the window. Grandpa and Grandma are not very well, they seem so tired every day, but they are glad to have us here and want us to stay all the time. Dear Papa I want you to come home and so does Helen Mama wants you to come home very very much.

Goodbye,

Your loving little girl

Annie Wanda Muir

[1]

Martinez California

July 18, 1890

My Dear Dear Papa,

I do hope you …

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Letter From [Louie Strentzel Muir] To [John Muir], 1890 Jul 17., Louie Strentzel Muir Jul 1890

Letter From [Louie Strentzel Muir] To [John Muir], 1890 Jul 17., Louie Strentzel Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, California,
July 17, 1890.


My beloved husband,

Your precious letters from the Muir Glacier are here, and our hearts are comforted by their coming, and we can now dream of sunlight on the snowy mountains, and know the marvelous beauty of blue glacier walls and glittering icebergs, instead ofshivering in the trackless gloom of mist over an icy wilderness. Oh, those blessed little flowers! Surely there must be good angels that have tended them with loving care amidst the bleak east winds, and so the good Father above will not fail to lead you, His own dear child, in …

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To [Louie Strentzel] Muir, 1890 Jul 15., Robert Underwood Johnson Jul 1890

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To [Louie Strentzel] Muir, 1890 Jul 15., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

July 15th, 1890.

Mrs. John Muir,
Martinez, California.

Dear Mrs. Muir:-

If I understand rightly, Mr. Muir will not be back until about the 1st of September. I may therefore be likely to reach him through you with this note, which I should be obliged if you would forward.
"The Century" desires to avail itself of the results of his present trip to Alaska, and to that end I have obtained authorization from Mr. Gilder for a proposal for one or two articles on the subject, as soon as they can be conveniently prepared. I do not know whether Mr. …

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Letter From [John Muir] To [Wanda Muir], [Ca. 1890 Jul 15]., John Muir Jul 1890

Letter From [John Muir] To [Wanda Muir], [Ca. 1890 Jul 15]., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[in 1890 Jul 15]

.... sounded dreadful, and then they came down towards me and howled and howled, and I finished breakfast and left that mountain, and now I call that mountain Wolf Mountain.
And I climbed another mountain and a beautiful bird like a hen, only far prettier, called a ptarmign let me close up to it and was not afraid, and I was its beautiful gentle eyes and its pretty feathers and its feet with feathers down to its toes to keep them warm in the snow in winter. And the ground in some places was just covered …

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Letter From Louie [Strentzel Muir] To [John Muir], 1890 Jul 12., Louie Strentzel Muir Jul 1890

Letter From Louie [Strentzel Muir] To [John Muir], 1890 Jul 12., Louie Strentzel Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, California,
July 12, 1890.

My dear husband:

Still no word nor message from Glacier Bay: and Alaska seems yet more mist-shrouded and far away than ever. Our papers have not yet given any report of the steamer Queen's arrival at Victoria, though the “Pueble" reached San Francisco on Thursday but no mention has been made of news from the North, so I hope the delay has been for good reasons, not because of storms. Yesterday, a hot norther blew here, 92 degree, but most of the time our winds have been too cold. Many of the grape vines had …

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Letter From [John Muir] To Helen [Muir], [1890] Jul 8., John Muir Jul 1890

Letter From [John Muir] To Helen [Muir], [1890] Jul 8., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Muir Glacier

Glacier Bay

July 8th 1890

Dear little Helen

I wish I could see you Papa is pretty lonesome sometimes because I want so to have you beside me. The pretty flowers grow over the rocks though it is pretty cold, & wild goats are on the tops of the mountains & a few seals & trout live in the cold water But I feel like poor Paddy Grogan sometimes & then I have to look at your picture. I live in a little cloth house but Captain Carroll says that he is going to bring me lumber …

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1890 July 7 Jm To Louie P1, John Muir Jul 1890

1890 July 7 Jm To Louie P1, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[Page 1]

Glacier Bay,

Camp near eastern end of ice wall

July 7th

2:30

Dear Louie. The steamer Queen is in sight pushing up Muir Inlet through a grand crowd of bergs on which a clear sun is shining. I hope to get a letter from you to hear how you and the little ones and older ones are.

I have had a good instructive and exciting time since last I wrote you by the Elder a week ago. The weather has been fine and I have climbed two mountains that gave grand general views of the immense mountain fountains …

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Letter From John Muir To Louie [Strentzel Muir], [1890] Jul 7., John Muir Jul 1890

Letter From John Muir To Louie [Strentzel Muir], [1890] Jul 7., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

To Mrs. Muir
Glacier Bay,
Camp near eastern end of ice wall

July 7th [1890]

Dear Louie:

The steamer Queen is in sight pushing up Muir Inlet through a grand crowd of bergs on which a clear sun is shining. I hope to get a letter from you to hear how you and the little ones and older ones are.
I have had a good instructive and exciting time since last I wrote you by the Elder a week ago. The weather has been fine and I have climbed two mountains that gave grand general views of the immense mountain …

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Letter From Louie [Strentzel] Muir To [John Muir], 1890 Jul 3., Louie Strentzel Muir Jul 1890

Letter From Louie [Strentzel] Muir To [John Muir], 1890 Jul 3., Louie Strentzel Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4]

"the insult offered to California in surrounding the State reservation with a National Park." Edward & Coleman are cheerful & comfortable. Grape vines just enormous in length, winds blowing. No more chinamen returned. Apples sold at 90cts to 1.00. [Kam?] is going to the P.O. so goodbye my beloved.

Faithfully Yours

Louie Muir

[in margin: 863]

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[1]

Martinez, California

July 3d, 1890.


My dear husband,

Your letters of June 17 from Victoria, did not reach here until June 29, having come by way of Fort Wrangel, while I worried fearing you might be on the way to Mount …

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Letter From Annie Wanda Muir To [John Muir], 1890 Jul 3., Annie Wanda Muir Jul 1890

Letter From Annie Wanda Muir To [John Muir], 1890 Jul 3., Annie Wanda Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

(1)

July 3, 1890

My own Dear Papa, I do hope you are well and warm again, the letter you sent me, I enjoyed reading it very much and it was beautiful. O I wish I could be with you and see the great blue Ocean, and the whales and birds. I hope the sun is bright where you are, and that the fog will go away. It is very warm and nice here. Apples and peaches are saling at a good price. Baby Helen is writing you a little litter too. The grass has turned yellow, and the roads …

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Letter From [Ann G. Muir] To Dan[Iel H. Muir], 1890 Jun 28., Ann G. Muir Jun 1890

Letter From [Ann G. Muir] To Dan[Iel H. Muir], 1890 Jun 28., Ann G. Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Portage June 28th 1890

Dear Danl

Tomorrow being your Birthday I wish to congratulate you, and wish you will yet live to enjoy very many happy Birthdays. I hope you are all well and trust the dear boy is growing nicely. A letter from John informs me that he intended to start for Alaska on the 14th of this month he intended to sail on the City of Puebla to Fort Townsend, then

he will take the Queen of the Pacifice for Glacier Bay. He also sent a cllipping from a San Francisco paper telling us about others that are …

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Letter From Annie Wanda Muir To [John Muir], 1890 Jun 25., Annie Wanda Muir Jun 1890

Letter From Annie Wanda Muir To [John Muir], 1890 Jun 25., Annie Wanda Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4]

Much braver, he stands up on the steps and barks at all the strange men and dogs, just as if he felt big enough to take care of all this big house. Dear Papa when do you think that you can come home? it seems a long time since you went away. Baby is writing you a little letter too, and she asks mama if you can read that kind of writing and we think that you can. Please write to me soon my dear Papa. Good night. Your loving little girl,

Annie Wanda Muir.

[1]

June 25. 1890 …

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Letter From Louie [Strentzel Muir] To John Muir, 1890 Jun 25., Louie Strentzel Muir Jun 1890

Letter From Louie [Strentzel Muir] To John Muir, 1890 Jun 25., Louie Strentzel Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4]

Edward and Coleman seem very cheerful and are doing well on the ranch, they mended the windmill and keep the tank full of water. Timmie Choi and Keng are at work. The road & poll tax collectors came the day you left, and the other chinamen all went off to the city. Joung worked only 2 days, so the ranch is very quiet. Mr. Van Trump sent you a pleasant letter from Yelm. The Century sent part of the article for the September No. calling it "Features of the Proposed National Park." Father is ready to start to Martinez, …

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Letter From Maggie R. [Margaret Muir Reid] To Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1890 Jun 22., Margaret Muir Reid Jun 1890

Letter From Maggie R. [Margaret Muir Reid] To Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1890 Jun 22., Margaret Muir Reid

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4]

pray Heaven to "Bless & Keep 'Him & His. I would like to hear from you Louie. and your mother. I fear Wanda has forgotten me tell her I still have the letters she wrote to me when she was a little girl & would like to have a letter from her now telling me about little sister & all that interests here. Give my kind regards to your father & mother & now with much love to you all I am as Ever

Maggie R

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[in margin: P S Hot winds prevail again this summer 100[degrees symbol] …

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Letter From [John Muir] To Louie [Strentzel Muir], [1890] Jun 18., John Muir Jun 1890

Letter From [John Muir] To Louie [Strentzel Muir], [1890] Jun 18., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Victoria, June 18th, [1890],
10 A.M.

Dear Louie:

We have just cast loose from Victoria and are now fairly away for the North. Met Loomis at Port Townsend. He is calm, cool, and full of wideawake care concerning everything required for the trip. He appeared this morning with a huge cake of tallow and buswok under his arm which he had found somewhere for greasing boots. There will be only Loomis and me in the party, with perhaps an Ind[ian] or two that we may pick up at Wrangel or Sitka. Have met Russell this morning --- seems to be …

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Letter From P. B. Van Trump To John Muir, 1890 Jun 18., P. B. Van Trump Jun 1890

Letter From P. B. Van Trump To John Muir, 1890 Jun 18., P. B. Van Trump

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4]

Last August I took my wife and little girl to the snow line and camped there several days. Camp of the clouds last August was nearly a mile away from the snow line, so light had been the snowfall the previous winter, and so great last summer's heat. I took my little daughter up nearly to our camp below "Goat Pillar," and would have taken her quite to it, only a recent fall of snow (3 inches) we had been travelling through for half a mile began to make her little feet cold. Quite a climb for a little …

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Letter From [John Muir] To [Annie] Wanda [Muir], 1890 Jun 17., John Muir Jun 1890

Letter From [John Muir] To [Annie] Wanda [Muir], 1890 Jun 17., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Victoria B.C. June 17th 90

Dear Wanda

I told you I would be on the bounding billows when I went to Alaska & so I was. The sea was all rumpled up with big waves & the tops of them came on to the deck of the steamer & made everybody go inside of their rooms, & many men sick on account of the pitching & heaving & rocking of the ship. But I was used to it & enjoyed it. The waves were very blue at the bottom & green in the middle & white at the …

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Letter From [John Muir] To Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1890 Jun 17., John Muir Jun 1890

Letter From [John Muir] To Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1890 Jun 17., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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On board Stmr Peublo

Victoria June 17th 90

Dear Louie, We arrived here an hour or two ago after a rather stormy voyage. It is now raining & everything is gloomy & sloppy & cold. I have on 2 pairs of drawers (besides pants) & all the coats I can find. Yet am blue cold. The first day out I staid on deck & shivered until I got rid of my sore throat. Am now quite well & can eat all kinds of [compounds?] even to codfish. In an hour we sail for Port Townsend & then will …

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