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Letter From Joanna [Muir] To Sister [Mary Muir], 1874 Sep 8., Joanna G. Muir Sep 1874

Letter From Joanna [Muir] To Sister [Mary Muir], 1874 Sep 8., Joanna G. Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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my back feels stronger and the weather has been much more endurable, but such a day as this makes us squirm. I am glad every day that you are so happy, I shall expect a description of you rustication and am anxious to know how you are now employed. I suppose you have not been tempted to commence attending school again I suppose you [underlined: would] rather like to graduate. Mr Hall wished you woud and thought you ought to. David is going down to Milwaukee to attend the state fair, starts tonight and perhaps well see Dan. I …

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Letter From [John Muir] To Sarah [Muir Galloway], 1874 Sep7., John Muir Sep 1874

Letter From [John Muir] To Sarah [Muir Galloway], 1874 Sep7., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[Original letter in possession of Sarah Muir Galloway]

Oakland, Sep. 7th, 1874.

My dear Sister Sarah:

The wee fern leaf is already here on my table trembling in the breeze that comes sweeping across the San Fran. bay from the ocean. It is the maidenhair (Adiantum pedatum), perhaps the most graceful and delicate of all the ferns of North America. It is found in almost every state, but in the Sierras it is yet more delicate and reaches higher perfection than in the moist shadowy dells of Wisconsin. It grows in our mountains up to an altitude of about 9000 …

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Studies In The Sierra. No. V. - Post-Glacial Denudation., John Muir Aug 1874

Studies In The Sierra. No. V. - Post-Glacial Denudation., John Muir

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

I THE Overland Monthly DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COUNTRY. Vol. 13.—NOVEMBER, 1874.—No. 5. v STUDIES IN THE SIERRA. NO. V. —POST-GLACIAL DENUDATION. WHEN Nature'lifted the ice-slieet from the mountains/she may well be saidy not to have turned a new leaf, but to have made a new one of the old. Throughout the unnumbered seasons of the glacial epoch the range lay crushed and sunless. In the stupendous denudation to which it was then subjected, all its pre-glacial features disappeared '"plants, animals, and landscapes were wiped from its flanks like drawings from a blackboard, and the vast page left …

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By-Ways Of Yosemite Travel. Bloody Canon., John Muir Aug 1874

By-Ways Of Yosemite Travel. Bloody Canon., John Muir

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

I u 1874.] BY-WAYS OF YOSEMITE TRAVEL. 267 grass!' I — in whose veins runs the blood of a hundred knights that chased his ancestors, when the Wallace, the Douglas, and the Bruce, swept Scotland clean of them—I! " The silver butt of the pistol was lifted, the muzzle pressed the frieze over his breast. There was a fizzle of dull priming, and then a flash and report. It was too late, though I threw myself upon the laird. He smiled calmly and contentedly. I tore away the blackened, burning cloak, the white coat, the white shirt. Not a drop …

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Letter From John Muir To [Jeanne C.] Carr, [1874 Sep]., John Muir Aug 1874

Letter From John Muir To [Jeanne C.] Carr, [1874 Sep]., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

7. [Sept, 1874] Yosemite ValleyDear Mrs Carr. Here again are pine trees & the wind & living rock & water. Ive met two of my ousels on one of the peelbe ripples of the river where I used to be with them. Most of the meadow gardens are disenchanted & dead, yet I found a few mint spikes & asters & brave sunful golden rods & a patch of the tiny mimalas that has two spots on each lip The fragrance & the color o& the form, & the whole spiritual expression of golden rods are hopeful & strength = …

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Letter From [Sarah Muir Galloway] To [John Muir], 1874 Aug 30., Sarah Muir Galloway Aug 1874

Letter From [Sarah Muir Galloway] To [John Muir], 1874 Aug 30., Sarah Muir Galloway

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Mound Hill, August 30th,'74.

My dear Brother:

Here I am again with a very good morning for you. I trust you are enjoying yourself this pleasant day. Are you still sitting writing from morning till night, or are you free again, wandering among the rocks and mountains, working out a theory for yourself and all the world as to how all the different marks were made on the rocks, also where all the bowlders lying here and there came from, and how they came, and how the valleys, ridges, and gorges were made hundreds of thousands of years ago. Oh …

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Letter From Joanna [Muir] To Mate [?], 1874 Aug 18., Joanna G. Muir Aug 1874

Letter From Joanna [Muir] To Mate [?], 1874 Aug 18., Joanna G. Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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time any of the Madison[illegible] are going to call. I may have some presentiment there of that I may be appareled in some thing more stylish than a wrapper, which is longer in front than back Don’t you? Good bye with much love to yourself and Mrs [ Smaley.?] Joanna,

P S. Please do not say much about my [going?] to Racine as I do not intend going unless I receive an invitation so to do.

[in margin: David has nothing like your sample only plain goods. 8/18/74]





[in margin: Bear with me when I ask you to send …

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Letter From [Ann G. Muir] To Daniel [H. Muir], [1874 Aug 10]., Ann G. Muir Aug 1874

Letter From [Ann G. Muir] To Daniel [H. Muir], [1874 Aug 10]., Ann G. Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[in margin: of letter to “Dear Daniel” from “your [mother)?]]

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Dear Brother

“Who ir ee comin on, and ire e weel” I am brim full of astonishment at the silence which has followed my visit and begin to think that it must be I did not make a good impresssion. Why does Emma never write to me. I have wait ed and waited for an answer to my letter but it has never come. I trust however that ere long we shall have something more satisfactory than even a letter I wish you could all make us a visit …

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Letter From Anne W. Cheney To John Muir, 1874 Augl 9., Anne W. Cheney Aug 1874

Letter From Anne W. Cheney To John Muir, 1874 Augl 9., Anne W. Cheney

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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& I hope to go with him, but our family affairs are so uncertain that I may be obliged to stay at home to take care of the children; however I look forward to a winter in Cal. as the only bright spot in the coming year, & shall be very much disappointed to be obliged to give it up. [illegible] more now, writing this we, as well as everything else – With kindest regards from all truly your friend Anna [illegible]. Cheney

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Home Sunday Aug. 9th 1874

My dear Mr. Muir.

I have been on a …

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Letter From N. D. Stebbins To John Muir, 1874 Augl 7., N. D. Stebbins Aug 1874

Letter From N. D. Stebbins To John Muir, 1874 Augl 7., N. D. Stebbins

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Detroit, August 7, '74.

My dear Friend Muir:

Today I forwarded a letter for the introduction of a Rev. friend whose wife is as a child to me, and of course her husband I naturally would be interested in. I suppose he would like to visit the University grounds, etc. So I sent (for he left Kansas for California) among others a line to Prof. Carr. I don't know but I am assuming too much. I think that such large hearts take in a great deal without being stretched to any hurt.
I saw …

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Studies In The Sierra, No. Iv. - Glacial Denudation., John Muir Jul 1874

Studies In The Sierra, No. Iv. - Glacial Denudation., John Muir

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

. \ \ 0 " \ 1 174 '. STUDIES IN THE SIERRA. [Aug. I have discovered that Mademoiselle Ida Gilmore was an inmate of the pension of a Madame Ganil, and that you' (here I put my hand in the drawer and grasped the skull)—'and that you, her most miserable son, are the sham vicomte and sham Duplessis that you are Miss Gilmore's murderer, and that this is the skull of your victim!' "I dashed the white thing down in front of him, and leaped up. He eyed it for a moment as if fascinated, then, with a shudder …

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Letter From Joanna [Muir] To Mary [Muir], 1874 Jul 10., Joanna G. Muir Jul 1874

Letter From Joanna [Muir] To Mary [Muir], 1874 Jul 10., Joanna G. Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Portage July 10. ’74.Mary Dear I feel quite good natured this afternoon and think I had better siege the opportunity of writing to you that I may not again treat you to a shower of cold water. Well Mary I like your picture much, and thank you most cordially for it. it is truly beautiful and the more I look at it the more it looks like you and the more I love you for I can see all your soul in it.. By the way I showed it to a young gentleman the other day who seemed spell bound …

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Letter From A[Sa] Gray To John Muir, 1874 Jul 8., Asa Gray Jul 1874

Letter From A[Sa] Gray To John Muir, 1874 Jul 8., Asa Gray

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

A. Gray Emerson



BOTANIC GARDEN, CAMBRIDGE, MASS.

July 8 1874.

Dear Muir

[Yes?], certainly, And you have no time to lose. Send the paper to H. W. Putnam, Secretary, Salem, Mass. If he does not read the paper himself, [illegible] provide for it. I will, with pleasure — Atho – as you know – I am ignorant of those matters. I spoke of you with [illegible] [Emerson?] lately E[illegible] A. Gray

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Letter From Chas. Warren Stoddard To John Muir, 1874 Jul 8., Charles Warren Stoddard Jul 1874

Letter From Chas. Warren Stoddard To John Muir, 1874 Jul 8., Charles Warren Stoddard

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[in margin: Stoddard Chris W. Stoddard]

[underlined: John Muir.]



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Rome the [Eternal?] 8th July 74.

Dear [illegible]-man.

Rome is running rivers of good honest [illegible] just now, would you like it, think you? I’d give much to see you [footing?] it amongst these wearysom ruins; how ugly they are, [illegible] the Old City its self is a kind of respectable bore. Rome is the Sierras! There is all the difference between them that there is between bone dust and young granite. There is no pine – spiced air here: our lungs are full of infinitely small relics of the …

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Studies In The Sierra. No. Iii. - Ancient Glaciers And Their Pathways., John Muir Jun 1874

Studies In The Sierra. No. Iii. - Ancient Glaciers And Their Pathways., John Muir

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

1874-] STUDIES IN THE SIERRA. Beneath their wings, awaiting night; Then great striped lizards, with eyes bright As jet, shot through the brown, thin grass Made gray with dust of alkali, Then stopped, then looked, then lifted high On crooked legs, and looked and looked. 67 STUDIES IN THE SIERRA. NO. III.-ANCIENT GLACIERS AND. THEIR PATHWAYS. THOUGH the gigantic glaciers of the Sierra are dead, their history is indelibly recorded in characters of rock, mountain, canon, and forest; and, although other hieroglyphics are being incessantly engraved over these, "line upon line" the glacial characters are so enormously emphasized that they …

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Letter From [Ann G. Muir] To Daniel [H. Muir], 1874 Jun 29., Ann G. Muir Jun 1874

Letter From [Ann G. Muir] To Daniel [H. Muir], 1874 Jun 29., Ann G. Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4] this hot weather – she thinks Emma and baby has gone off visiting – We spend a good deal of our time working in the garden when the weather is cool, we think our health is better for it. we will be glad to to have a letter from you – May God bless you all and ever keep you in every step of your journey through life, and when you are done with time, may you have a heavenly inheritance that will never fade away – from your Mother with much affection ———— [1] 1874 Portage June 29thDear …

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Letter From [Ann G. Muir] To Daniel [H. Muir], 1874 Jun 28., Ann G. Muir Jun 1874

Letter From [Ann G. Muir] To Daniel [H. Muir], 1874 Jun 28., Ann G. Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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-your father is that he is well and happy as usual but still lame – all the rest of us are in our usual health I hope this will find you all well. May Heaven bless and comfort you all throughout lifes journey-

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Portage 28th June 1874

Dear Daniel

Tomorrow being your birthday. I thought I must write to you today. I feel like filling up this paper with loving and earnest wishes for you resent and future happiness also including Emma and the dear children. Hoping blessings may be thickly strewn around your paths …

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Letter From Anne W. Cheney To John Muir, 1874 Jun 28., Anne W. Cheney Jun 1874

Letter From Anne W. Cheney To John Muir, 1874 Jun 28., Anne W. Cheney

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

New York [Lindsor?] Hotel Sunday June 2[?]the 1874

My dear Mr. Muir.

I have put my-self into a physician’s hands. I am dying of heat in consequence in this crowded city, can only write you a few words of thanks, for your last charming letter, & how glad I am on your account & [illegible] my own that you are going into the wilds,

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again, for of course we cannot look for as many of your di- lighted letters, as when you were in the city – so follow you in your articles in the Overland, & it …

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Letter From Joanna [Muir] To Mary [Muir], 1874 Jun 23., Joanna G. Muir Jun 1874

Letter From Joanna [Muir] To Mary [Muir], 1874 Jun 23., Joanna G. Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

June 23, 1874.

Dear Mary

Your letter which was mailed yesterday was also rec’d yesterday and now that breakfast is over I must give expression to my feeling by means of my pencil. Now that a night is past since read- ing your unpleasant news I think I am proposed to say that I am very glad that you have prospects of accomplishing something substantial in the painting line my wish is that it may be the beginning of pleasure and profit in that sphere for you. On first receiving the intelligence of your contemplated stay in M — during …

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[Tribute To Keith's Latest Creation, The California Alps.], John Muir Jun 1874

[Tribute To Keith's Latest Creation, The California Alps.], John Muir

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

ART NOTES. ! At U*e Art Aai-cittiBS t-uicry-A 'e4f3z Tribute (o a.viiWn Latent (*** .!: uHiiilii'act-n nuti.t'rrmx notaftl" puriting* ri.d other * rks of art that bit' uiiJ bo Kuan by .ili who rieair to r* :'. tivate or jtr-itif ,'atawr forart. iCor t) art is do! as f ally representee) a* we could debire, ou account of a cjjwo DaUon of adverse circumstances, but the home produ--- tiODM displayed are worthy of the author!! "THE CALIFORNIA ALPS.** In regard to this picture, which Wsa. Eeith reoanUy fli.iahed, and j. T Best exhibit*, the geologist Muir writ U& follows: "The …

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Letter From Joanna [Muir] To Mary [Muir], 1874 Jun 3., Joanna G. Muir Jun 1874

Letter From Joanna [Muir] To Mary [Muir], 1874 Jun 3., Joanna G. Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

3and wants to know if mother has not yet repented He says he is very happy and distributes tracts every day. Will [Whitelaw?] came and invited me to an excursion to Devils lake last Saturday which I accepted I enjoyed the lake exquisitely the scenery was beautiful and the boat riding magnificent, How I wish you could have been there. Perhaps we can go when you come home. I stayed down in Caledonia Saturday night and the next day went to a19 Portage Wis June [3?] 1874.Darlingest Mary. I received your long expected letter and was most heartily amused with …

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Studies In The Sierra. No. Ii - Mountain Sculpture. - Origin Of Yosemite Valleys., John Muir May 1874

Studies In The Sierra. No. Ii - Mountain Sculpture. - Origin Of Yosemite Valleys., John Muir

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

THE Overland Monthly DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COUNTRY. Vol. i2.—JUNE,. 1874.—No. 6. STUDIES IN THE SIERRA. NO. II. —MOUNTAIN SCULPTURE. —ORIGIN OF YOSEMITE VALLEYS. ALL the valleys and canons of the western flank of the Sierra, between 360 and 390 north latitude, naturally classify themselves under two enera, each containing two species, 'genus comprehends all the slate valleys; the other all that are built of granite. The latter is far the more important, both on account of the greater extent of its' geographical range and the grandeur and simplicity of its phenomena. .wAll the valleys of both genera …

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Letter From Joanna [Muir] To Emma [Muir], 1874 May 16., Joanna G. Muir May 1874

Letter From Joanna [Muir] To Emma [Muir], 1874 May 16., Joanna G. Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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and ships it. If you do send up here for some mother thinks you would like Mrs Mitchel’s better than Mrs [Arnot’s?] as the latter makes it [underlined: very] salt (I am getting into such a habit of scrawling I am afraid I shall never be able to write decently again!) We, that is your, Portage relatives are all enjoying pretty good health, Maggie is in the country at present visiting John’s folks. I guess my eyes are a little better and tell the Doctor I am becoming daily more and more grateful for his little bottles of medicine …

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Letter From Anne W. Cheney To John Muir, 1874 May 14., Anne W. Cheney May 1874

Letter From Anne W. Cheney To John Muir, 1874 May 14., Anne W. Cheney

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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arrived safely, & only made us long more for their native climate, but now journeying seems in the dim distance, I now plan for another fall are not yet made — That a work you have laid out for yourself! & I hate to think of your leaving Yo Semite, it will not seem like the same place when you are away, you are so much a part of the Valley in our


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[in margin: minds - I hear Charlie Stoddard has had a special interview with the Pope - how happy that must make him - …

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Letter From John Muir To [Ralph Waldo] Emerson, [1874] May 9., John Muir May 1874

Letter From John Muir To [Ralph Waldo] Emerson, [1874] May 9., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

John Muir





Oakland May 9th [1874]

My dear Mr Emerson

I have commenced writing up some of my Studies in the Sierra, & I am sure you will be delighted with them however ill presented for all the scriptures of the glacial snow-crystals are glorious The Overland Monthly will contain a study each month through’t the year, & you must promise to read them

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some of the subjects will be. Ancient glaciers of the Sierra & their pathways Glacial denudation, Post glacial denudation, Geological value of shadows, Lakes, Fountains, Waterfalls, Living glaciers, Forest, Gardens, Avalanches etc —————————— I’m …

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Letter From [John Muir] To Mary [Muir], [1874] Sep 11., John Muir May 1874

Letter From [John Muir] To Mary [Muir], [1874] Sep 11., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[Original letter in possession of Mrs. Mary Muir Hand]

Oakland. Sep. 11, [1874].

My dear bra highland Mary:

I am off for an excursion into the Sierra again and so farewell. I hope you find the world full of light and love and color and that your life is clear to absorb and enjoy it.
I had a letter from Prof. Butler lately. You must go there at times. How do you progress with your painting? I have a friend here, W. Keith, a splendid artist with whom I wish you might practice. Yet I am glad you did not …

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On Mountin Sculpture In The Sierra Nevada, And The Method Of Glacial Erosion., Ezra S. Carr Apr 1874

On Mountin Sculpture In The Sierra Nevada, And The Method Of Glacial Erosion., Ezra S. Carr

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

Geology and Natural History. 615 eated layer was then placed at such an angle that the re- Sriion of the sound-wave was sent through a second tin the same dimensions as the above), and its action rendered Syits causing a second sensitive flame, placed at the end STtube, to become violently affected. This action continued ''ill'.the heated layer intervened; but upon its withdrawal, \ mentioned sensitive flame, receiving the whole of the direct became again violently agitated, and at the same moment ond sensitive flame, ceasing to be affected" returned to its anquility.—Nature, ix, 334. e. c. p. IP 41. …

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Letter From Benj[Amin] P. Avery To John Muir, 1874 Apr 25., Benjamin P. Avery Apr 1874

Letter From Benj[Amin] P. Avery To John Muir, 1874 Apr 25., Benjamin P. Avery

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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San Francisco April 25/74

Dear Mr. Muir:

I was very sorry my wife’s concern for me when I was in one of my “bad spells” prevented me from seeing you when you were so kind as to call. I am still lame and confined to my room, and my hand is too shaky for plain writing; but I must say how [illegible] I appreciate the kind words in your note of the 17th, and hope it may be con- venient for you to favor us with another call. I regret very much [serving?] my pleas- ant relations with the[underlined: …

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Letter From Joanna [Muir] To Mary [Muir], 1874 Apr 18., Joanna G. Muir Apr 1874

Letter From Joanna [Muir] To Mary [Muir], 1874 Apr 18., Joanna G. Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[on envelope: Joanna 4/18/74

Miss Mary Muir, Madison, Wisconsin]







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Racine, Wis. Apr 18, 1874.

Dear Mary,

Your poetical article arrived in due time and I doubt not would reach Oshkosh in season. I am most heart- ily thankful to you for your faithfulness after all my nervousness & poutiness, but we all knew a long time ago that you was a jewel of the first water. I did not write sooner because I wished to tell you when to expect



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me, and now you may look for me at Madison Friday of next week (and this …

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Letter From Joanna [Muir] To Mary [Muir], [1874 ?] Apr 17-19., Joanna G. Muir Apr 1874

Letter From Joanna [Muir] To Mary [Muir], [1874 ?] Apr 17-19., Joanna G. Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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but if you have an oppor. to send you can guess about as well as I. I [underlined: do] wish you and [Mary?] would see if any thing can be done to the overskirt of my white dress. I hate that tucking in front and it is too long on the sides I think. The sleeves are funny but theyl do. Dear Annie never think you are wasting time when you write to me even if I don’t write they are highly [prized?] and its [underlined: awful] hard for me to write. The Dr only has to take …

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