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Letter From Sarah Muir Galloway To Daniel H. Muir, 1866 May 16, Sarah Muir Galloway May 1866

Letter From Sarah Muir Galloway To Daniel H. Muir, 1866 May 16, Sarah Muir Galloway

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4]

the baby, it is a pretty good one. She is thriving first rate, and has got two teeth she can not stand alone yet but she can clap her hands and chatter her own way finely. Anna & George are at school and are getting along finely. The only thing I feel sorry about leaving Portage for is on account of the school and church, but there is a very fine school house [deleted about 5] a little more than half a mile from our home just in sight they have generally a good teacher there, there is four …

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Letter From Hattie Trout To John Muir, 1866 May 10, Hattie Trout May 1866

Letter From Hattie Trout To John Muir, 1866 May 10, Hattie Trout

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4]

I am sorry you have not nicer companions in your boarding house Am glad you are not deprived of the privilege of meeting with your flower companions and there are a great many more privileges that we are not deprived of no matter where we roam. Am very thankful John that you do not forget us. I love to be remembered by my dear friends and I don't forget them. You are not forgotten for a single day, and I know I will always remember you, and I ask the same of you for I need very much to …

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Letter From John Muir To Daniel H. Muir, 1866 May 7, John Muir May 1866

Letter From John Muir To Daniel H. Muir, 1866 May 7, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4]

he tells her that if she will walk in the fields with me she will find that Solomon himself could not talk more wisely about plants then I, ha, ha! He tells me to go and see her without any bashfulness but I have some of that lavish fear that you speak of and I don't know whether to vent use or not. I suppose that you are now in the midst of friends & society while I have not one in all this place. Dan I suppose that you too are determined to be a machine maker, How …

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Letter From John Muir To Sarah Muir Galloway, 1866 May, John Muir Apr 1866

Letter From John Muir To Sarah Muir Galloway, 1866 May, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1]

I sincerely wish you all much of happiness in your new home Yours in brotherly affection John Muir

Indianapolis Ind May 1866

Dear Sister Sarah,

I am always glad in- deed to hear from you. I was not at all aware of the extent of my indebtedness or you should have had letter for letter at least, and I feel sure that you know me to well to fear that I shall ever neglect Sarah's letters; so marked as they are with warm sisterly affection & regard. I feel truly grateful for all the good cheering letters that come …

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Letter From Henry S. Butler To John Muir, 1866 Apr 28, Henry S. Butler Apr 1866

Letter From Henry S. Butler To John Muir, 1866 Apr 28, Henry S. Butler

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Madison, April 28. 1866.

Dear Mr Muir.

I was very glad to hear from you once more, and to find that you were in the United States. I was very sorry to hear of your troubles, and the fire, though that bought you nearer to me once more. I wish very much to see you in Madison, and on the College hill picking flowers, or making a wooden clock, or bed I would like to see you swimming in the Lake. I wish you could see our new home, Lakewood cottage, between Dr. Carr's and the Lake. It is very …

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Letter From James Davie Butler To Kate Merrill, 1866 Apr 26, James Davie Butler Apr 1866

Letter From James Davie Butler To Kate Merrill, 1866 Apr 26, James Davie Butler

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

(Original letter in possession of Miss Mina Merrill of Indianapolis) Madison, Wis. [Wisconsin], April 26, '66. Miss Kate Merrill: Herewith let me introduce to you Mr. John Muir, sometime a student of mine here -- a worthy young man every way. He was till lately engaged as an inventor in a Canadian manufactory. But one of those fires, so epidemic in the last months, threw him out of work there. If you can walk the fields with him, you will find that Solomon could speak no more wisely about plants. Mr. Muir would be very helpful in your Mission Sabbath …

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Letter From John Muir To Henry S. Butler, 1866 Apr 22, John Muir Apr 1866

Letter From John Muir To Henry S. Butler, 1866 Apr 22, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4]

awhile and in an hour or two I found myself at work in a large steam factory, where waggon spikes, and hubs, and many other things are made. This is a large and beautiful town but not so beautiful as Madison with its lakes and hills, & blue prairies I suppose that [illegible] this your will have gathered some handful of An[illegible] and spring beauties for yourself & little Agnes, & Anna and mother. The first four days of Apr' were very warm here and made the [illegible] anemone, & [illegible]nger of spring and Dutchmans brushes, come up among …

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Letter From Mary Trout To John Muir, 1866 Apr 13 - 22, Mary Trout Apr 1866

Letter From Mary Trout To John Muir, 1866 Apr 13 - 22, Mary Trout

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4]

while we staid there: Father has gained in strength a good deal but has not been able to ride out 626 yet. We are in hopes he soon will be, the fine weather agrees with him so well I suppose Rachel has told you about her unexpected stay at home. We had over seventy Scholars at the Sunday School today. Peter seems to be trying to make up your loss as well as he can. The books you left and the remembrances you sent seemed very grateful to them they looked very tickled. You see Wm is not far …

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Letter From Andrew Reid To John Muir, 1866 Apr 12, Andrew Reid Apr 1866

Letter From Andrew Reid To John Muir, 1866 Apr 12, Andrew Reid

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

A Reid

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Jeddo April 12th /66

Dear Sir

Your welcome letter came to hand some time ago I might have written sooner but, Hollow in the woods, seemed rather a curious address so I waited till a chance came for me to find out how it was We [farmar bodies?] are having rather a backward time just now. There are only a few folks commenced plowing yet some wreathes of snow lying around the fences and the land pretty wet which will make hurrying times and late sowing by and by if it gives us plenty time to …

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Letter From Ann G. Muir To Daniel H. Muir, 1866 Apr 3, Ann G. Muir Apr 1866

Letter From Ann G. Muir To Daniel H. Muir, 1866 Apr 3, Ann G. Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4]

Joanna has been spending a week in Portage and has just got home. she wants you to write her a long letter - and so does the other girls - and so do I - I found an old newspaper the other day, and I thought I would look over it - I saw a paragraph in it that I thought might interest you, about Mich- igan College, it was printed four years ago, so there might be some difference now - I enclose it for your perusal Address your letters to Portage City Expecting you will write soon …

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Letter From Ann Gilrye Muir To John Muir, 1866 Apr 1, Ann Gilrye Muir Mar 1866

Letter From Ann Gilrye Muir To John Muir, 1866 Apr 1, Ann Gilrye Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Farm April 1st 1866

Dear John
I have received your last dated March 20 from Indianapolis the news of which much surprised me - You have my sincere sympha- -thy in this trial and disappointment and I hope it will be among the many things that will work together for your good - I am sorry for the men that owned the mill, do you think they will be able to rebuild it - did you get any money from them before you left Canada Dan would be surprised to see you at [Bafals?] he has not wrote home for …

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Letter From John Muir To David Gilrye Muir, 1866 Feb 28, John Muir Feb 1866

Letter From John Muir To David Gilrye Muir, 1866 Feb 28, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1]

St Vincent Feb 18th /66

Dear brother [Dany?],
I recd' a letter from Sarah a few days ago by which I learned that you had written me twice since arriving in Buff' this last time but had not heard from me at all, now Master Dan I believe that we of the hollow have [illegible] as complaining a ditty to the time of "shall ere we hear of Dan again", as even you could sing of the hollow, I recd' one letter from you since your visit home in which you spoke of your dis appointment concerning your educational …

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Letter From Daniel Muir To John Muir, 1866 Feb 24, Daniel Muir Feb 1866

Letter From Daniel Muir To John Muir, 1866 Feb 24, Daniel Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1]

Town of Buffalo 24 Feby 1866

Dear John I have been longer of answering your letter about the Discription of Canady & the account of your Contract for rake making then I thought I would. I wished to see that god had led me to the best place when he brought to Wisconsin I suppose you will be well through with your rake concern by this time what are you going to do nixt, are you going to continue at that kind of business or what. And how is your Soul thriving in so much confusion, see that it …

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Letter From John Muir To Jeanne C. Carr, 1866 Jan 21, John Muir Jan 1866

Letter From John Muir To Jeanne C. Carr, 1866 Jan 21, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4]

Cy[illegible] [illegibla]ulbipera grows in every arbor vitae made in company with the beautiful and frag[illegible] Linn[illegible] [illegible.] Bot[illegible] [illegible]oids is a common fern in many parts of Canada, Osmunda regalis is far less common here than in Wis. I found it in only two cocalities. 6, Claytom[illegible] only in one place near the Niagara Falls the delicale Adiant[illegible] trembles upon every hillside S[illegible]opteris Germanica grows to a great height in open places in arbor vitae, & black ash swamps Comptosorns rhi[illegible], and Seo[illegible] [illegible] [illegible], I found in but one place amid the wet limestone rocks of Owen - …

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Letter From Joanna Muir To John Muir, 1866 Jan 7, Joanna Muir Jan 1866

Letter From Joanna Muir To John Muir, 1866 Jan 7, Joanna Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4]

Jan 7th 1866

Dear John

I thought that as Joanna was writing I might as well write a note to you but I intend to write a long letter to you before long. I like going to school very well. Mary and I are studying reading writing spelling Arithmetic grammer Algebra philosophy I never studied algebra before but I like it very well so far we have got almost to fractions, Perhaps you will be tickled to hear that your old friend George Mair is married to a widow with two children her name was Mrs Purvace they have …

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Letter From John Muir To Osgood & Smith, 1866-67 Winter, John Muir Dec 1865

Letter From John Muir To Osgood & Smith, 1866-67 Winter, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[Original in possession of Sarah Muir Galloway] [Indianapolis, winter of 1866-67]. Gentlemen: [Osgood & Smith?] The belt system of your shop is in a bad condition, and as belting is at once the nerves and sinews of factory life, the greatness of the importance of having it kept in good order need scarce be urged. The difficulties seem to be: 1st Many belts are not right with regard to tightness 2nd " " have bad joinings 3rd " " are carelessly subjected to friction and thus torn and worn. I carried home a piece of belting to study the effects …

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Letter From D[Aniel] H. M[Uir] To [John Muir], [Ca 1886]., Daniel H. Muir Dec 1865

Letter From D[Aniel] H. M[Uir] To [John Muir], [Ca 1886]., Daniel H. Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

You instructed me to send 2000. and reinvest the bal_ I must tell you there will be nothing to invest as the ballance for a while at least will be in notes at 8% payable in 1-2 & 3 years and it will only be when the property is improved so that the notes will sell that I [stricken word] can again invest any thing for you_ There never seemed to be a better thime than now

I hope you are all well Your brother DHM

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Letter From Sarah Muir Galloway To Daniel Muir, 1865 Dec 31, Sarah Muir Galloway Dec 1865

Letter From Sarah Muir Galloway To Daniel Muir, 1865 Dec 31, Sarah Muir Galloway

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4]

Dear Brother Daniel, as Sarah has left this page for me to fill, I do not know that I can more profitably do so, than by telling you the text from which Mr Whitney the Babtist Min- -ister preached this evening. You will find it in the second Chapter of Genesis 18th verse, "It is not good for man to be alone", Now Dan as I am always slow to advise, I will just leave the matter right here, for your own medit- -ation, knowing that "a word to the wise is enough'; I was indeed sorry that you …

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Letter From Ann G. Muir To Daniel H. Muir, 1865 Dec 31, Ann G. Muir Dec 1865

Letter From Ann G. Muir To Daniel H. Muir, 1865 Dec 31, Ann G. Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[2]

David G. does not like to live in Portage at all. I would not be surprised to see him move back to the farm again. Margt. and Sarah both told me they had received letters from you. and David Muir too, he said you had not received any letters from home - I have not had a letter from John since you left - have you had any let me know when you write, are you attending any evening school are you boarding where you were before - tell us what wages you are receiving if you can live …

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Letter From Mary Muir Et. Al. To Daniel Muir, 1865 Dec 31, Mary Muir Dec 1865

Letter From Mary Muir Et. Al. To Daniel Muir, 1865 Dec 31, Mary Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1]

Hickory Hill. Dec. 31st 1865

Well dear brother writing letters Is a grand affair indeed To the absent what is better Than a sisters homely screed

Knowing this tis very pleasant This to send in black and white All the news I know at present That will brother Dan delight

Of late we have been very much put about with the idea that you have not received our letter Anne and I wrote to you some time ago and as you said nothing about it to David but told him to give us a drilling for not writing we …

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Letter From John Muir To Mary, Anna Annie L. And Joanna Muir, 1865 Dec 24, John Muir Dec 1865

Letter From John Muir To Mary, Anna Annie L. And Joanna Muir, 1865 Dec 24, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Trouts Hollow CW, Dec 2 '1865

Dear Sisters Mary, Anna, Joanna -

I feel that I owe you a long apology for not replying to your long good letters. I have been exceedingly busy, but this is not a sufficient excuse. My bed sets me upon my feet at five, and I go to bed at eleven, and have to do at least two days work every day, sometimes three. I sometimes almost forget where I am. What I am doing, or what my name is, I often think of you and wish with all my might that I could …

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Letter From John Muir To Emily O. Pelton, 1865 Nov 12, John Muir Nov 1865

Letter From John Muir To Emily O. Pelton, 1865 Nov 12, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4]

is indeed a beautiful moss, and in springy woods covers old prosttr[illegible] trees in uncommon richness & grandeur. No 2 grows in wet and swampy places I frequently sank to my waist in beds of it when lost in that horrid Canadian swamp a year ago You ask Emily when I am going to return to the states. I think likely next summer or fall I may then complete my studies at the university - it seems as though I could not be contented with the little education I now have You seem to think that nature has designed …

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Letter From Daniel Muir To John Muir, Ca 1865 Nov, Daniel Muir Oct 1865

Letter From Daniel Muir To John Muir, Ca 1865 Nov, Daniel Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[ca Nov 1865] Buffalo

Dear Brother John

You see I am once more in the city of Buffalo and the prospects are that here I will remain now until I can build [illegible]ers etc. When I left home I fully expected to go to college in Oberlin Ohio but when I went there I found that the information I had received concerning it had not been true and of course you may judge that I was not a little disappointed but without crying over the loss of that which I never had had I started for Buffalo and am now …

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Letter From John Muir To David And Sarah Galloway, 1865 Oct 23, John Muir Oct 1865

Letter From John Muir To David And Sarah Galloway, 1865 Oct 23, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4]

Duncan Sterling is not coming this year I have some idea of completing my university course and will you please do this business for me. Send to Chicago for Loomis' University Asbro[illegible] & for Smiths' Differential & integral calculas with these pack up my Looms' Algebra and geometry and Smiths analytical geometry also Loomes' Trigonometry I think that you will find all of these last mentioned books in your parlor send all by express. [deleted The money still in my favor after buying those two books place in a letter, & send by express If John Reid can add …

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Letter From Jeanne C. Carr To John Muir, 1865 Sep 24, Jeanne C. Carr Sep 1865

Letter From Jeanne C. Carr To John Muir, 1865 Sep 24, Jeanne C. Carr

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[2]

too large for a single life, and requires Eternity. But surely it is wiser to lay the foundations deep enough for a structure that shall outlast the fleeting years. In my private prayer book I find this petition - "Oh Lord help me to feel in my heart the leisure in which thou dost work thy works, and teach me the secret of that Labor which is not Toil." - a prayer for a woman whose life seems always to be used up in little trifling things, never labeled 'done' and laid away as a mans may be. Then …

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Letter From John Muir To Jeanne C. Carr, 1865 Sep 13, John Muir Sep 1865

Letter From John Muir To Jeanne C. Carr, 1865 Sep 13, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1]

possibly '66.

Trouts Mills Near Meaford Sept '13th [1865]

"_______" Mrs Carr

Your precious letter with its burden of cheer and good wishes has come to our hollow, and has done for me that work of sympathy and encouragement which I know you kindly wished it to do. It came at a time when much needed, for I am subject to lonesomeness at times. Accept then my heartfelt gratitude - would that I could make a better return. E# I am sorry over the loss of Prof Sterlings letter, for I waited and wearied for it a long time. …

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Letter From Annie L. Muir To Daniel H. Muir, 1865 Sep 9, Annie L. Muir Sep 1865

Letter From Annie L. Muir To Daniel H. Muir, 1865 Sep 9, Annie L. Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1865]

[1]

The [Barch?] Sep 9th Dear Brother Dan
I was quite taken by surprise to hear of your removal from John but you did not come quite far enough west I am happy to hear that you intend to ref[illegible] a regards writing I am of [illegible] that the great need of attirement is on your side but to proceed as you will not see the place this summer I will try to describe it to your. Instead of those large fields of weeds there are fields of stubble each containing a fresh straws [look?] The willows have grown …

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Letter From Mary Muir To Daniel H. Muir ?, 1865 Sep 8, Mary Muir Sep 1865

Letter From Mary Muir To Daniel H. Muir ?, 1865 Sep 8, Mary Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1] Hickory Hill Sept 8th 1865

Dear Brother

4th I wish you was near Oh would you were here To see you once more Ride up to our door So pleasant would be

2nd 3rd

Togeather we'd walk We're missing your [illegible] Togeather we'd talk So well is your face Togeather we'd sing L.D up with a smile Your [illegible] voice would ring Eating apples the while With musical cheer Those esticans red

4th 5th

Togeather we'd be We'd talk of the past Neath an apple tree Of days which we last Enjoying its fruit Enjoyed with each other So …

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Letter From John Muir To Emily O. Pelton, 1865 May 23, John Muir May 1865

Letter From John Muir To Emily O. Pelton, 1865 May 23, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1]

Near Meaford May 23d /65

Dear Friend Emily,

I wrote you on the first of last Jan and have not yet received any answer, so, as might well be expected, the last drop of my patience, which is awaiting the arrival of your letters is always small, has leaked away. I have been seeking a reason for your unwonted silence, but whether it proceeds from your being sick, or married, or crazy, or angry, I could not decide. I already did not forget to send my address. I hope that the speedy appearance of a long letter will throw …

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Harper's History Of The Great Rebellion, May, 1865 Apr 1865

Harper's History Of The Great Rebellion, May, 1865

Civil War Text

Loose leaf from the newpaper Harper's Weekly. Consisting of 2 pages. The first page features "Harper's History of the Great Rebellion" with illustration "Camp of Confederate Prisoners at Elmira, New York." The other page is an illustration titled "The Conduct of The War."

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