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Letter From Jeanne C. Carr To John Muir, 1866 Dec 16, Jeanne C. Carr Dec 1866

Letter From Jeanne C. Carr To John Muir, 1866 Dec 16, Jeanne C. Carr

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

1866 Madison, Dec 16. 66.

Dear John Muir, This is a very grey, chill and unlovely Sabbath (those words do not look nicely together) and I have been up on the moun- tain side with Claude. to worship under the huge stone cross. I was glad to hear from you - glad to know you found the Calypsa. I think you deserved to find it. You are such a true lover of nature. I want to know you, dear friend, many years hence when you shall have a true deep love for art, also, I do not think you ever …

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Letter From John H. Riley To John Muir, 1866 Dec 12, John H. Riley Dec 1866

Letter From John H. Riley To John Muir, 1866 Dec 12, John H. Riley

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

December the 12 1866 Henry County Indiana

Sir Mr Mur[illegible] as a Friend I seated my self to drop you a few line to let you no that I am well and hope that these will find you the same good blessing, times is toerble hard hear as for money Matters and as I am a new beginner at the Bisiness it will keep me digging for the first year or till my crop comes in I a Friend in need, is a Friend deed, this is my intension is to get some money and through friend ship to, and …

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Letter From John Muir To Daniel H. Muir, 1866 Nov 19, John Muir Nov 1866

Letter From John Muir To Daniel H. Muir, 1866 Nov 19, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Nov 19th

My dear Brother Daniel This is Monday forenoon I thought I would have a talk with you today mostly as to the course I think you had better pursue if you mean to be a machinest or inventor But just as I sat down I looked out the window and couldnt think what that long [illegible] carriages m[illegible] so solemly till Joan that they [illegible] preceded by a hearse. For any sake Dan remember that you must die But a very little while and you will be buried. You are very ambitious you wish to be as …

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Letter From [E Slaltan] To Louisa Stentzel, 1868 Nov 18, E. Slaltan Nov 1866

Letter From [E Slaltan] To Louisa Stentzel, 1868 Nov 18, E. Slaltan

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Cache Creek Nov 18 1866 Miss Louisa My dear young friend your letter dated [ ] came to hand last evening. I presume you will think it was a long time a coming. But the post office is 3 miles from here & and we don’t get them every mail. I was very happy to hear from you. You can excuse me of scolding you in Ellens letters. I don’t remember doing so but try to avoid that in future. I was much surprised to find you such a beautiful writer for one so young it is [esctrordinary] good it …

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Letter From Jeanne C. Carr To John Muir, 1866 Oct 12, Jeanne C. Carr Oct 1866

Letter From Jeanne C. Carr To John Muir, 1866 Oct 12, Jeanne C. Carr

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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open it early in October, but there is no certainty. A larger number than ever before had applied for rooms and many have gone away. I suppose you have in [illegible] the advantage of access to a good [illegible]. I suppose you have before this found my beautiful book. "The Stone Mason of Saint Point", and what did you think of it? And did you ever find Calypso for yourself in the North Roads? I have a great many questions to ask you, and I trust there is a time coming for them all. You do not know how …

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Letter From John Muir To Jeanne C. Carr, 1866 Oct, John Muir Sep 1866

Letter From John Muir To Jeanne C. Carr, 1866 Oct, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

00380 [Oct 1866] Osgood & Smith Iapolis [11?] #[illegible]

I have not before sent these feelings and thoughts to anybody, but I know that I am speaking to one who by long & deep communion with Nature understands them, and can tell me what is true, or false and unworthy in my experiences, The ease with with with which you have read my mind from hints taken from letters to my child friends gives me confidence to write - Thank you for the compliment of the great picture frame - that is at least one invention that I should not …

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Letter From John Muir To Daniel H. Muir, 1866 Sep 27, John Muir Sep 1866

Letter From John Muir To Daniel H. Muir, 1866 Sep 27, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Ind' Sep' 27th 1866

Dear Dan I recd' your letter today & was glad to hear that you were well and busy I thank you for those ferns the two which I return are new - the larger is [Aspidun?] [Goldianerm?], the other is a species of [Asplenium not?] descri[illegible] Gray, please send me large & well pressed specimens of both and of as many of them rare & new ones as you can find If you cannot send them very well keep them till I come I recd a beautiful [illegible] & friendly letter from Mrs Carr lately. Mary …

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Letter From Ann G. Muir To Daniel H. Muir, 1866 Sep 18, Ann G. Muir Sep 1866

Letter From Ann G. Muir To Daniel H. Muir, 1866 Sep 18, Ann G. Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Hickory hill Sept. 18th 1866

Dear Daniel

I received your letter informing us of your moving a little nearer home why did you stop short of Hickory Hill. nearly every day we think of you when we go to that room to pick out good apples we would all enjoy them better if you were here. I am glad to know your health is good. I hope you like your new situation let us know if your wages are sufficient to support you comfortably - Affairs here move long much in the same old tract our farm is let again …

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Letter From John Muir To David Gilrye Muir, 1866 Aug 12, John Muir Aug 1866

Letter From John Muir To David Gilrye Muir, 1866 Aug 12, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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the saw table after he had gone to the surgeon, one finger was sawed off about the second joint, another close to the palm, and the others together with the thumb terribly lacer- ated -. Another man a carpenter was fired yesterday to take his place at $2 1/4 per day-. French in six easy lessons left for his country home without his fortune a few days ago, [illegible] our own circle all is unchanged The weather is not so bad. I recd a letter from Mary Hark & Hattie Trout lately They both congratulated me upon having Danie …

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Letter From John Muir To Daniel H. Muir, 1866 Ca. Aug 12, John Muir Aug 1866

Letter From John Muir To Daniel H. Muir, 1866 Ca. Aug 12, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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upon anything else - we have moved to a small brick house one square south and two each of the shop - [Daty?] & Stokes are still here Stokes wishes you to find a place for him, A long, very long legged Yankee [illegible] your saws, he wishes to escape to some super terranean position first chance - I recd a letter from Mother a few days ago, David has been telling her that this place is unhealthy. I also read one from Dane, he is made ruling elder in the presby- terian church. I have not yet read …

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Letter From Celustus Sutherland To John Muir, 1866 Aug 4, Celustus Sutherland Aug 1866

Letter From Celustus Sutherland To John Muir, 1866 Aug 4, Celustus Sutherland

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Aug 4th 6

Friend Muir we received your kind letter and was glad to hear from you and that you was enjoying your self among your friends ad flowers I think you will see and gather enough plants without going away down south in the lonely woods where something may gather you. that Friend of yours I have forgotten his name but my how he works at [Mr James M Rays?] came and got his Book and Pictures and said he wood like to go with you but that was to long a trip he is going to St …

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Letter From Daniel H. Muir To John Muir, 1866 Aug 3, Daniel H. Muir Aug 1866

Letter From Daniel H. Muir To John Muir, 1866 Aug 3, Daniel H. Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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for a house each so you see I am buisy I command whatever I please but only take $2. per day and pay $4. for board & washing

The musquettoes are biting me so I can not write more I will describe the place bye & bye, ever yours

Danl H. Muir

please address me Avery Berrien Co. Mich



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Avery Mich Aug 3rd /66

Dear Brother John

I will now give you a short history of my doings since last I saw you. After leaving you I passed through a miserably flat half swampy country till …

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Letter From Ann G. Muir To Daniel H. Muir, 1866 Jul 2, Ann G. Muir Jul 1866

Letter From Ann G. Muir To Daniel H. Muir, 1866 Jul 2, Ann G. Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

July 2d 1866

Dear Daniel

I begin to think you are very long in answering my last letter so I write again. I want to know how you are getting along the path of life - are you still in the same shop - have you decided to come west this summer you know I am always glad to have you come - I hope you are as much interested about religious matters as before as spiritual things are of so much greater importance than temporal concerns are - We did not forget your birthday last friday hoping you will …

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Letter From John Muir To David Gilrye Muir, 1866 Jun 9, John Muir Jun 1866

Letter From John Muir To David Gilrye Muir, 1866 Jun 9, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Saturday afternoon June 9th /66

Dear Dany I have just read your Dutch difficulties and am as pleased at the thought of seeing you so soon as you are [illegible]turbed by the prospect of leaving Buff

As for employment here You may come along and begin work in our shop in five minutes afer you step from the cars at $10 or 12 per week and you may remain here winter & summer untill you are gray.

In a month or two you will likely be able to get $15 a week I have been working by the piece …

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[10] John A. Kasson, Politics, John A. Kasson Jun 1866

[10] John A. Kasson, Politics, John A. Kasson

Iowa Documents Class Projects

A letter from Mr. John A. Kasson to Colonel Wm Moore written in Des Moines, Iowa on June 2, 1866. In the letter, Kasson discusses his upcoming campaign for representative of Iowa’s 5th congressional district in the US House of Representatives, in which he lost the nomination to Grenville Dodge.

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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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