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Letter From Mary Trout ? To John Muir, 1867 Mar 28, Mary Trout

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

March 28 /67

Very Dear friend John

You are too kind to put yourself to so much pain and suffering to write to such a negligent friend (I hardly deserve the name friend) as Mary I do deeply feel for your great trial. O that we were only where we could do the least thing to aleviate your extreme suffering either by helping to brighten those dark tedious days, or to administer to your wants in any other way. If Hattie was where she could read for you, While I dressed you poor eye and gave you the medicine how …

American Christian Review, Vol.10, No.13, March 26, 1867

American Christian Review

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Letter From David Muir To John Muir, 1867 Mar 25, David Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Portage Cty. Wis, Mar 25/67.

Dear Brother John

I was made very sorry by your letter which I recd on Saturday eve. I believe it is the only accident that has happened to any member of our family of any account. I went over & told Maggie yesterday. She is very sorry. We talked of going down to see you & keep you company but con- cluded to wait until we heard from you again Now John if you want anything - money - clothing - eatables of preserves Just let let me know & I will send it to …

Letter From James Davie Butler To John Muir, 1867 Mar 20, James Davie Butler

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Henry sends you his best fellow feeling in your suffering, and only mourns that you are so far from his soothing and sympathizing words and deeds. He begs me to inclose you a photograph and a flower hoping your eyes may may bear to look on them by the time they greet you. Fearing you may not be able to read my lines I will inclose them to Miss Merrill, who has volunteered to see that they come to your ears. With prayers that the stroke now so grievous may move in the end joyous. I am, as ever, …

American Christian Review, Vol.10, No.12, March 19, 1867

American Christian Review

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Letter From Jeanne C. Carr To John Muir, 1867 Mar 15, Jeanne C. Carr

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4]

steady preference of [illegible] is most lovely and excellent. He has made you a more individualized existence than is common, and by your very nature & [illegible] removed you from common templations. Perhaps He only wants you to love and to speak of Him. Perhaps He will not let you be a naturalist, but calls you by His suffering away from that pleas- ant path, to speak to other Souls those messages of His your soul has heard. Do not be anxious about it, He will surely place you where your work is. Do I seem to speak over …

Letter From John Muir To Ann Gilrye Muir, 1867 Mar 12, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[12 Mar 1867]

Ind' Tuesday 12th

Dear mother I am still keeping well though still confined mostly to bed I do not suffer pain and am every way more comfortable than could be expected my friends are kind beyond my ability to write

I spend my time in thinking, sleeping and in hearing my friends read

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my appetite is returning and in a few weeks I hope to be busy and [illegible]. I can see a little through the injured eye and it is not yet disfigured. Almost every day my employer visits me.

They have built a new …

American Christian Review, Vol.10, No.11, March 12, 1867

American Christian Review

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Letter From John Muir To Ann Gilrye Muir, 1867 Mar 9, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[in margin: Injured eye]

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[1867] Ind. Saturday Mar 9th

Dear Mother While connecting a machine belt I accidentally thrust the point of a file into my right eye last Tuesday and there is the damage I am completely prostrated and the eye is lost I have been confined to bed since the accident and for the first two or three days could not eat or drink a mouthful but I am a little better today and hope to be at work again in a month or two I am condemmed by the doctor to dark room for

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American Christian Review, Vol.10, No.10, March 5, 1867

American Christian Review

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Letter From John Muir To Merrills And Moores, Ca 1867 Mar 4, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[Original Letter returned to Miss Merrill] [Indianapolis, March [1 10] 4 (6?), 1867] Friends, I have lost an eye. Yesterday in connecting a machine belt I thrust a pointed file through the outer membrane and as I received the liquid of the first bruise upon my fingers felt that not a single flower, no more of lovely scenery, not any more of beauty would ever pass the portal of my right eye. It is lost. For weeks I have daily [studied] maps in locating a route through the southern states, the West Indies, South America, and Europe –a botanical journey …

Letter From John Muir To Catharine Merrill, 1867 Mar, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[Original letter returned to Miss M. Merrill] [Indianapolis, March , 1867] [To Miss Catharine Merrill]. I have been more than delighted with reading these precious Chalmer volumes. I have fairly lived on them two weeks. I am condemned by the physician to a dark room for same weeks, and should be glad to have you choose me another book, as I hope to be able to obtain a reader sometimes. I will make no apology for so long and so woeful a note, because I feel that you will understand and appreciate my feeling. JOHN MUIR [Envelope addressed Miss Catherine …

American Christian Review, Vol.10, No.9, February 26, 1867

American Christian Review

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Letter From Henry S. Butler To John Muir, 1867 Feb 24, Henry S. Butler

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Madison. Feb 24th. 1867.

John Muir Esq.
My Dear Friend. For sometime I have been intending to write you. Ever since my Father's re- turn I have wanted to thank you for the beautiful present you sent me, Paradise Lost, which is among the best of books

With the Dollar you were so kind as to send, I did as you wished, and bought a bundle of candy for Albert Carr one for the Griffen's another for the Pickards, one for the Sterlings, and some for myself, and my sisters; all thank you very much.

I was very glad to …

American Christian Review, Vol.10, No.8, February 19, 1867

American Christian Review

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American Christian Review, Vol.10, No.7, February 12, 1867

American Christian Review

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Letter From John Muir To Mary And Anna Muir, 1867 Feb 11, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1] [in margin: I read a scotch paper] [1867] Indp'l's Feb 11th

Dear sisters Mary & Anna

I believe that of all my cor- respondents - you & Joanna are the only ones that give me more letters than I return. I read books & gather flowers & work with & think with so much machinery that I have only a little time to write even to my own dear sisters. I am sorry Mary that your letter together with your photograph was lost. I guess that the Mr John Muir who lives here had opened it, and when he …

American Christian Review, Vol.10, No.6, February 5, 1867

American Christian Review

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American Christian Review, Vol.10, No.5, January 29, 1867

American Christian Review

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American Christian Review, Vol.10, No.4, January 22, 1867

American Christian Review

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Letter From John H. Riley To John Muir, 1867 Jan 15, John H. Riley

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

January 15th 1867

Friend John I seated my self to write you a few lines to ask a favor of you to see Mr O. S. good or Smith and see what they will give me per weak if I can f[illegible] thing her to get there by the last of F[illegible] and the best the [illegible] strait for one year or more if we can get a long to geather longer for John I had a settlement with this man at I am [illegible] his pl[illegible] and he [illegible] me to cut his wood and hall it to his …

American Christian Review, Vol.10, No.3, January 15, 1867

American Christian Review

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Letter From John Muir To Daniel H. Muir, 1867 Jan 13, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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I like my home here very much I am glad you find friends. My health is better than it was in summer and I take things a little easier in the shop, and mean to shirk heavy work still more [illegible] spoke turners are on their beam ends about being cut down to forty cents per hundred times are dull in Ind' I wish you could see what a nice room I have but I must leave this chatty unco[illegible]ected letter and go to my [illegible] bed I bed good night with cordial longings for your happiness and general …

American Christian Review, Vol.10, No.2, January 8, 1867

American Christian Review

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Journal Of Several Visits To The Indians On The Kennebec River, Joseph Baxter

Maine Collection

Journal of Several Visits to the Indians On the Kennebec River

by the Rev. Joseph Baxter, of Medfield, Mass., 1717 with notes by the Rev. Elias Nason. "Reprinted from the N.E.Hist. and Genealogical Register for January, 1867."

David Clapp & Son, Printers, 334 Washington St., Boston, 1867.

Letter From John Muir To George Galloway, 1867 Jan, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[Jan.] 1867 Ind [illegible]

My dear little nephew George Galloway I am glad you sent me your little letter, because it made me think of all the big lots of fun we used to have when you lived at Fountain Lake. Old Santa Claus gave you lots of candy and good things. he did not put anything in my socks, I suppose he likes little boys & girls best. You must read all the pretty book that grandma gave you, and you will soon read lots of big books, and get a great deal of good knowledge and become a …

American Christian Review, Vol.10, No.1, January 1, 1867

American Christian Review

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Letter From John Muir To Anna Galloway, 1867 Jan, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Ind'p'l's Jan [illegible]

My dear little flower loving niece I read your nice little letter containing so long a list of candy animals that came from the well stocked fields & pastures of Old Santa Claus, I guess he thought you were a good girl, and I think so too - I have a great many pretty wild flowers to show you some day, and I want you to keep some to show me Here is a pretty moss that I found in Indiana growing on a great big old rotten log. Its name is Climacium [illegible]- [illegible]. I do …

Letter From John Muir To Daniel H. Muir, 1866 Dec 31, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Indpls Last evening of [illegible]

Dear brother Daniel

I thank you for the ferns and for Ponted[illegible] cordata- that plant with the [illegible] of blue flowers, I am glad you sent it because although I had tried to analyze it a great many times long ago I was per- voked to "try again." and as my brains seem to grow I made its acquaintance without much trouble, I have a specimen of it in Wis & one here which I suppose you remember we found at the end of Lake Ontario, & when I was trying to analyze it you …

Letter From Joanna Muir To Daniel H. Muir, 1866 Dec 25, Joanna Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Hickory Farm Dec 25th [1866]

Dear brother Daniel

I wish you a merry christmas and a happy new year when it comes; we expected [illegible] and [illegible]arah and her folks today but it is so rainy that I am afraid that they will not come which seems very strange for christ- mas for it is always very [illegible] and it is generally good [illebible] but if it rains much more the snow will be all gone but perhaps we are having our January than a little before the time. I received your letter of the 17th of Nov and …