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Letter From A. G. Black To John Muir, 1880 Jun 25., A. G. Black Jun 1880

Letter From A. G. Black To John Muir, 1880 Jun 25., A. G. Black

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Yosemite, Cal., June 25th 1880

John Muir Esq Dear Sir

You had in the heart what you [Looked for on paper Long ere this from my wife and myself as you might know?] and it will be a happy and joyfull day to us when we see your happy wife and yourself in [illegible] 28 room Looking out at the Yosemite falls. the Season has been Late the [illegible] on now all in fine order and the valley Looks Spring as yet, theres no change in [Guardian?] as yet, and nothing definite known as yet – who will be …


American Christian Review, Vol.23, No.25, June 22, 1880 Jun 1880

American Christian Review, Vol.23, No.25, June 22, 1880

American Christian Review

No abstract provided.


Letter From John Bidwell To John Muir, 1880 Jun 21., John Bidwell Jun 1880

Letter From John Bidwell To John Muir, 1880 Jun 21., John Bidwell

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Rancho Chico, June 21, 1880.My Dear MuirYour kind letter to Mrs Bidwell I opened by mistake; but I have forwarded some to her at Washington, D.C. where she arrived three weeks ago and a little more – no, a little less. She will be delighted, and, I hope, be able to explain about the Polygonum &c But it is my turn now,having been misled by your lecture in which, with a meekness and innocence in describle, you acknowledged yourself out of the beaten track, but proclaimed your intention to continue therein – or rather thereout – by saying you were …


Letter From N. D. Stebbins To John Muir, 1880 June 21., N. D. Stebbins Jun 1880

Letter From N. D. Stebbins To John Muir, 1880 June 21., N. D. Stebbins

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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the precinct of Montecito. We have no PO in this precinct. I am not strong enough to ramble about much. I wished for your opinion last summer while I was visiting some of the canons in the upper part of S.B. Valley. It is said there are no evidences of the action of glaciers below Monterey in this State. I imagined I saw something that looked like it in New Annie Canon. [illegible] [illegible] Ranch — I would be delighted to see you and learn more of your adventures & [illegible] in what we both feel so enthusiastically about …


Letter From John Muir To Mr. J. C. [C. J.] K. Jones, 1880 Jun 20., John Muir Jun 1880

Letter From John Muir To Mr. J. C. [C. J.] K. Jones, 1880 Jun 20., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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find described in Scribner’s as to books on the subject you have all worth having. Go where you will, with or without guides, the loving soul will be filed. Good luck to you. I am yours truly John Muir.


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Martinez Contra Costa Co, California, June 20th 1880.

Mr J.C.K. Jones, Dear Sir,

I regret to say that I cannot send you the mountain articles you want. Copies of the Bulletin articles are not kept for sale for more than a week or two after the date of their publication. There are about 50 of them altogether, mostly on …


Letter From John Muir To [Asa] Gray , 1880 Jun 19., John Muir Jun 1880

Letter From John Muir To [Asa] Gray , 1880 Jun 19., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Muir Martinez, Contra Costa County Cal, June 19th 1880.

My dear Gray,

I send you herewith specimens of the cones, [las?], & wood of the Alaska cypress. When is that 2d Val of Cal. botany to appear. Do you know anything about a 2d edition of the 1st Vol. Not a single copy is to be had here for love or money. I was married last April, & now have a fixed camp

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where I can store burs & grass. My address is now Martinez etc. I learn through the newspaper that Sargent is coming to our woods …


American Christian Review, Vol.23, No.24, June 15, 1880 Jun 1880

American Christian Review, Vol.23, No.24, June 15, 1880

American Christian Review

No abstract provided.


Letter From John M. Vanderbilt To John Muir, 1880 Jun 9., John M. Vanderbilt Jun 1880

Letter From John M. Vanderbilt To John Muir, 1880 Jun 9., John M. Vanderbilt

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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[letterhead]

[Silka?] Alaska June 9 1880

My dear Mr. Muir

I have just received your very welcome letter of April 12th & most heartily congratulate you on the very happy event of life in which I am joined by my wife who is here with me, you can hardly realize how happy your letter made us feel and we assure you that we will take advantage of the first opportunity offered to visit you which will probably be next fall or winter. We want very much to meet your wife & it would afford us the greatest pleasure if …


American Christian Review, Vol.23, No.23, June 8, 1880 Jun 1880

American Christian Review, Vol.23, No.23, June 8, 1880

American Christian Review

No abstract provided.


Letter From Julia M[Errill] Moores To John Muir & Louie Muir, 1880 Jun 6., Julia Merrill Moores Jun 1880

Letter From Julia M[Errill] Moores To John Muir & Louie Muir, 1880 Jun 6., Julia Merrill Moores

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Indianapolis June 6th 1880 232 N. Ala. [illegible]

My Dear ‘John & Louie Muir’,

The little box enclosing the orange blossoms(?) and the cake came safely to hand a day or two since. We were all delighted to have this assurance that the rumors we had heard through Prof. Jordan – were true. No doubts after this! John Muir we knew. Louie Muir we shall have to learn. But if she is a part of John, the task will not be difficult. Yet we are human enough not to be entirely satisfied with faith – we …


Letter From J[Ohn] G[Ill] Lemmon To John Muir, 1880 Jun 4., John Gill Lemmon Jun 1880

Letter From J[Ohn] G[Ill] Lemmon To John Muir, 1880 Jun 4., John Gill Lemmon

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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[letterhead]

Oakland Cal., June 4, 1880

John Muir. Naturalist &c Dear Sir.

While botanizing down in Arizona recently I received from friends here in Oakland an item of news at once the most astonishing and pleasing that ever was heard. “California’s most distinguished naturalist & writer was married a few days ago to the [illegible] talented & lovely daughrter of Dr Strentzel of Martinez. [The?]

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Dr is a Millionaire and the daughter is the only child! Now our dear little Johnny Muir is in clover. Did ever such good fortune come to a scientist before!” Arriving home …


Letter From Jeanne C. Carr To John Muir & Louie Muir, 1880 Jun 3., Jeanne C. Carr Jun 1880

Letter From Jeanne C. Carr To John Muir & Louie Muir, 1880 Jun 3., Jeanne C. Carr

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Pasadena June 3” 1880.

My dear John & Louie,

I should hardly have waited a formal announcement of your wedded happiness before sending my blessing directly to you, under other circumstances: but never has my life been so [involved?] and so little under my own control. I think of your charming house as complete now, of the dear mothers content to lie still & get well with so excellent a story letter always at command, of a certain comforting sense in the fathers mind that somebody will care for his beloved trees when his time for rest arrives; more than …


American Christian Review, Vol.23, No.22, June 1, 1880 May 1880

American Christian Review, Vol.23, No.22, June 1, 1880

American Christian Review

No abstract provided.


Letter From Peter H. Burnett To Louie [Strentzel] Muir, 1880 May 28., Peter H. Burnett May 1880

Letter From Peter H. Burnett To Louie [Strentzel] Muir, 1880 May 28., Peter H. Burnett

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[in margin: From Peter Burnett to Louie]00918San Francisco, 610 Jones Street, May 28, 1880.Mrs. Louie Muir –Dear Cousin – Your beautiful and welcome present came duly to hand [on?] yesterday. It so happened that Mrs. Ryland, Mrs. Wallace, Miss Hattie Ryland and Miss Romie Burnett were all present and partook of the cake, and admired the beautiful flowers and graceful ferns. I thank you most kindly for your recollection of me. I must see your good husband. I hope your wedded life may be happy and [loving?]. When you come to the city be sure to call and see me, …


American Christian Review, Vol.23, No.21, May 25, 1880 May 1880

American Christian Review, Vol.23, No.21, May 25, 1880

American Christian Review

No abstract provided.


Letter From Sarah [Muir Galloway] To John Muir, 1880 May 23., Sarah Muir Galloway May 1880

Letter From Sarah [Muir Galloway] To John Muir, 1880 May 23., Sarah Muir Galloway

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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her, if you are not coming very soon, send her Photo - , did you receive the letter I sent, five or six weeks ago. When you return you will find many changes. turn where you will, but you will also find many warm hearts waiting to secure you where ever you are known, friends are continually enquiring about your work and where abouts, and many of your old accauaintance are anxiously awaiting your home coming, expecting a visit and talk with you. Thanks for the paper you sent, the letters were very interesting. Your sea voyage brought …


Letter From Margaret [Muir Reid] To John Muir, 1880 May 23., Margaret Muir Reid May 1880

Letter From Margaret [Muir Reid] To John Muir, 1880 May 23., Margaret Muir Reid

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Portage May 23rd 1880

My very dear brother John

So you have at last taken unto yourself a wife. I wish you and your dear partner every possible happiness in life. May Gods blessing attend your every step and may we all at last meet an unbroken family at His right hand When are you coming to make that long looked for long longed for visit I think you might make your wedding trip right home here I am anxious to make the acquaintance of my new sister. I wrote you a letter shortly after you left Alaska but received …


Letter From Grandma [Abigail] Bush To Mrs. Muir [Louie Strentzel Muir], May 20, Abigail Bush May 1880

Letter From Grandma [Abigail] Bush To Mrs. Muir [Louie Strentzel Muir], May 20, Abigail Bush

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez May 20th [ ] Dear Louie Last Sunday [ ] Mr [ ] as [Text] [for] his Sermon need the [pretty] sayings of Christ consider the Lillies of the field [etc. etc.] in speaking of Gods beautiful handiworks he made reference to [our] not far from us [when] had written said Beautiful Wonderful [deserve] [places] of Gods Wonderful works in Nature. I can’t describe to you how prettily he spoke of you Husbands writing’s work’s I thought, it was at least [ ], worth a call from you both upon him, don’t you? I think he feels badly that …


Letter From Ed. S[Cribner's]M[Onthly] [Robert Underwood Johnson] To John Muir, 1880 May 20., Robert Underwood Johnson, Editors Scribner's Monthly May 1880

Letter From Ed. S[Cribner's]M[Onthly] [Robert Underwood Johnson] To John Muir, 1880 May 20., Robert Underwood Johnson, Editors Scribner's Monthly

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead] May 20” 1880 Dear Mr. Muir: Your last letter to me has been displaced, but we have just recalled the [proposition?] you make of the articles on Alaska. We should very much like two and probably three papers on that subject to add to those we have on hand, in a definite announcement for next year. (The “California Alps Excursion” will appear in the forth coming July number). We want to

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begin these in November and go right on with them at only an interval of a month or so. We hope you will continue to give …


American Christian Review, Vol.23, No.20, May 18, 1880 May 1880

American Christian Review, Vol.23, No.20, May 18, 1880

American Christian Review

No abstract provided.


American Christian Review, Vol.23, No.19, May 11, 1880 May 1880

American Christian Review, Vol.23, No.19, May 11, 1880

American Christian Review

No abstract provided.


Letter From [Lon] To Auntie, 1880 May 10, Lon [ ] May 1880

Letter From [Lon] To Auntie, 1880 May 10, Lon [ ]

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Modesto May 10 ’80 Dear Auntie, We were blessed on the afternoon of the 5th (last Wednesday) with a fine daughter weighing 8 ½ pounds. She has black hair, black eyes, and is said to resemble me. I think she will look like Belle. She is fat, plump and awful healthy. “What a pretty baby” is the [ ] exclamation among her many admirers. May is doing unmarkably well, though she keep her body yet and will for three weeks to come. We hope that your health is improving and expect to see you up this way this summer. It …


Letter From Janet D[Ouglass] Moores To John Muir, 1880 May 5., Janet Douglass Moores May 1880

Letter From Janet D[Ouglass] Moores To John Muir, 1880 May 5., Janet Douglass Moores

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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232 N. Alabama St., [Indianapolis, Ind.],

Wednesday, May 5th, 1880.

My dear Mr. Muir,

I shall callyou that, even if you are married, for you had no business to take such an important step without asking our advice. Perhaps you do not know that you have been our sweetheart since we were little things, Katie and I. Now that I have made you aware of the fact, imagine our feelings on hearing of your desertion. If it had not come from so reliable a source, Prof. Jordan, we could not have believed it. Well, as it must be …


Letter From Joanna [Muir] To Daniel [H. Muir], 1880 May 4., Joanna Muir May 1880

Letter From Joanna [Muir] To Daniel [H. Muir], 1880 May 4., Joanna Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

4 [in margin: P.S. On behalf of the family I send thanks to Anita for her pretty cards. Tell her to be a good little girl and send me some [illegible] flowers J.]

Dear brother D.

Mother doubtless has said all that needs to be said but I must put in a little word of greeting. I am so glad that thus far your affairs have gone so much to your liking. I do most sincerely hope that Se[illegible] may prove a happy home to you and your dear ones and that all may be well. I wish that either …


American Christian Review, Vol.23, No.18, May 4, 1880 May 1880

American Christian Review, Vol.23, No.18, May 4, 1880

American Christian Review

No abstract provided.


Letter From Joanna [Muir] To John Muir, 1880 May 2., Joanna Muir May 1880

Letter From Joanna [Muir] To John Muir, 1880 May 2., Joanna Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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sent Maggie and Sarah, concerning the region of Puget Sound and your voyage etc, and I cannot tell you how much we enjoyed them, Oh! how glorious to be able to see so much of this worlds beauty and grandeur and still more glorious to be able to understand and appreciate it. I hope you will find time to write to us again very soon and do not forget to tell us what your address will be. I trust also that ere another season shall have passed we shall have seen both you and your wife. With much love …


Letter From Mother [Ann Gilrye Muir] To John Muir, 1880 May 2., Ann Gilrye Muir May 1880

Letter From Mother [Ann Gilrye Muir] To John Muir, 1880 May 2., Ann Gilrye Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Portage May 2d 1880Dear JohnI do heartily congratulate you on your new found happiness and trust it will increase as years pass on. The box you so kindly sent has been received — and its contents much appreciated by all the numerous members of our family. Daniel has sold his property in Racine and has gone to Nebraska about three weeks ago – he came

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home and spent a week with us before leaving. The rest of your friends here are in there usual health. I send my most earnest loving greetings to you and your wife – …


Letter From Jeanne C. Carr To [Louisiana E.] Strentzel, [1880 May]., Jeanne C. Carr Apr 1880

Letter From Jeanne C. Carr To [Louisiana E.] Strentzel, [1880 May]., Jeanne C. Carr

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[May, 1880]

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Pasadena, Friday evening.

Dear Mrs Strentzel.

I ought not to write you on a Friday, or in a Fridayish mood; but tomorrow is one of our mail days, and I cannot allow it to pass without carrying to you all and especially to John Muir the congratulations of Dr Congers family, and his many friends in this region, as well as our own. We read the news in Wednesdays Record, [illegible] — just a week after the wedding: as I read it aloud to the family some one reminded us of a friend whose husband was a …


Letter From Emily O. Pelton To [John Muir], 1880 Apr 29., Emily O. Pelton Apr 1880

Letter From Emily O. Pelton To [John Muir], 1880 Apr 29., Emily O. Pelton

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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I hope to make your wife’s acquaintance some time so why not introduce her to me in the way just mentioned. What has become of the book that was to come out last year! Mrs Jenks – “Aunt [illegible] asked me its title not long since and I could not tell her. The best of good wishes for you and yours from your sister Emily O [Pelton?]. Mrs Drake from Strawberry sends congratulations with your Bolinas friends. I have not heard from Aunt Sena since writing her you were to be married. It will be quite a surprise …


Letter From Abbie A. Allen To John Muir, 1880 Apr 27., Abbie A. Allen Apr 1880

Letter From Abbie A. Allen To John Muir, 1880 Apr 27., Abbie A. Allen

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Apr. [21st?], 1880

Dear Mr Muir

I cannot help congratulating you that you are again among civilized people, alive, well, & happy of course, as you are now a member of the human family – And now that you have come to earth, I hope the bonds will be so strong, that you can never flee were [from?] [were?] [from?] [illegible] of [illegible]; but settle down in that lovely nook among the [hills?], where the [pipper?] tree, the orange & pine flourish — I well remember the admiration your beloved had for this most [graceful?] of

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trees …