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Letter From Ida May Griffin To John Muir, 1863 Nov 8, Ida May Griffin
Letter From Ida May Griffin To John Muir, 1863 Nov 8, Ida May Griffin
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Nov 8 63 A[illegible] NOV, 8.
DEAR MR MUIR I WISH YOU WOULD WRITE TO ME AND COME AND SEE ME LAST SUNTY I WAS SEVEN YEARS OLD FROM YOUR IDA MAY GRIFFIN
Letter From Ambrose Newton To John Muir, 1863 Sep 13, Ambrose Newton
Letter From Ambrose Newton To John Muir, 1863 Sep 13, Ambrose Newton
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
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you write me that you are a going to attend a Medical school May you prosper in all your undertakings and be a blessing to many You will ever seem never to me while I live and to us all and you will ever have our best wishes, I bid you good by with the request you will write me often and on the receipt of this Let me know how you are getting on in the world Let us hereafter hold correspondence A[illegible] My Wife sends her love and wishes to be remembered I remain ever & Truly …
Letter From John Muir To Mr. & Mrs. Ambrose Newton, 1863 Aug 2, John Muir
Letter From John Muir To Mr. & Mrs. Ambrose Newton, 1863 Aug 2, John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Fountain Lake Aug 2 1863 Mr and Mrs Newton Dear friends, as I now sit down to write many thoughts crowd upon me, some are very painful. The morning that I left Pr du Chien shall ever be one of mournful interest to me; I was then compelled to part with the friend who was dearest to me, fully assured that we would not again meet until we had passed through death and into the other world. And soon she was called away. She is now in the tomb. I shall not again receive her letters of cheer and encouragement, …
Letter From John Muir To Sarah And David Galloway, 1863 Jul, John Muir
Letter From John Muir To Sarah And David Galloway, 1863 Jul, John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
[4] countered was the most beautiful & deepest & longest & narrowest [illegible] [rocks?] over[illegible]ing them a perfect selection of trees which hold themselves towards one another from side to side with inimitable grace forming a [flower / flowing?] [illegible] of indescribable beauty - the light is measured & [mellowed?] for every flower Springs [illegible] & pools are there in their places to moisten them The walls are fringed & painted most divinely with the bright green polypodium & As[illegible] & all[illegible] & mosses & liverworts - & gray lichens & here & there a clump of flowers & little …
Letter From J. E. Johnson To S. Cornelius, 1863 Jun 24, J. E. Johnson
Letter From J. E. Johnson To S. Cornelius, 1863 Jun 24, J. E. Johnson
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Madison, Wisconsin. June 25th, 1863.
Dear Brother Cornelius,
I desire to introduce to you, the [illegible], Mr. John Muir, a young gentleman who has been attending the University of Wisconsin, located here, & who expects next term to connect himself with the Univeri- sity in Ann A[illegible]. You will find in him the highest modesty, united with the most excellent moral & Christian character; also mechanical genius of a very high order. He is here greatly esteemed & I know you will gladly endeavor to render his stay in your city pleasant & profitable. He will be able to give …
Letter From J. E. Johnson To J. R. Boise, 1863 Jun 24, J. E. Johnson
Letter From J. E. Johnson To J. R. Boise, 1863 Jun 24, J. E. Johnson
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Madison, Wisconsin, June 25th 1863.
Dear [illegible] Boise, Allow me to introduce to you, the [illegible], Mr. John Muir, a most estimable young gentleman, who had been attending the state University here, & expects to commence study in A[illegible] [illegible] next term. You will find in him the greatest modesty [found?] with high moral & religious ex- cellence. He had also marked mechanical genius. I trust his time of study in your University may be pleasant & profitable. My family joins me in regards to you & yours
Fr[illegible]matly yours J E. Johnson.
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Letter From David M. Galloway To John Muir, 1863 Jun 13, David M. Galloway
Letter From David M. Galloway To John Muir, 1863 Jun 13, David M. Galloway
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Fountain Lake June 13th /63
Dear John we received both your letters the day before yesterday I believe it is just as well we did not get the first one the week before as we would no doubt have been making some arrangements to go to meet you and then what a disappointment but then it will not be very long before we see you if all goes well I am sorry we have not had the chance to peep in and see what you were about in your own little home. If you go as far away as you …
Letter From John Muir To Sarah And David Galloway, 1863 Jun 12, John Muir
Letter From John Muir To Sarah And David Galloway, 1863 Jun 12, John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
[1863] Madison June 12th
Dear Sister & Brother I rec'd yours with ten dollars I was surprised to see so much money It will perhaps be useful before my journey is completed but whether or not I thank you for it very much as shewing your good nature I am thinner than usual and feel somewhat exhausted I have done more than usual though my health has not been so good I delivered a lecture at the examination yesterday upon [illegible]. It lasted over an hour I wish you could have been present to see how smart I am becoming. …
Letter From Dave David Muir To John Muir, [1863] Jun 9, David Muir
Letter From Dave David Muir To John Muir, [1863] Jun 9, David Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Portage Jun 9
Dear John I have just received your letter and hasten to answer. I am well, and all the folks except Maggie she has had a hard time of it I suppose you heard that she had got cold and was down sick; very sick too. When do you intend to begin practicing medicine. You are much needed. If you know how to cure the prairie itch I wish you would prescribe for me, for I have it bad (the prairie itch) and have tried Sulphur and Cream of Tarter and itch ointment and I aint cured yet. …
Letter From John Muir To David M. Galloway, 1863 Jun 8, John Muir
Letter From John Muir To David M. Galloway, 1863 Jun 8, John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Madison June 8th /63
Dear David, I write to tell you not to go to Watsons as I mean to start out upon a long botanical and geo- logical tour down the Wis river valley and over into Iowa etc so that I do not know when I shall be home. If I go to Mich University Med 'School I shall be with you untill Oct' When I do return from my tramp I am not so well as I was last term - I need a rest - perhaps my tour will do me good though a three or …
Letter From John Muir To Sarah And David Galloway, 1863 Jun 1, John Muir
Letter From John Muir To Sarah And David Galloway, 1863 Jun 1, John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
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June 1st /63
Dear Sarah & David Unless hindered by circumstances not seen now I shall be at Watsons Thursday 18th I am sorry that you have not been able to visit me as I will not return to Madison but will go somewhere much farther away so that you will not be so able to reach me as now I cannot do anything towards analyzing your plant Sarah without the flower I mean to be happy for a few days around Fountain Lake in collecting specimens for my
herbalism I returned last Saturday evening from a long ramble …
Letter From Ann Gilrye Muir To John Muir, 1863 May 16, Ann Gilrye Muir
Letter From Ann Gilrye Muir To John Muir, 1863 May 16, Ann Gilrye Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Portage City May [16?], 1863
Dear John As I expect to see you here soon I thought I would let you know how to find us out as we have moved to a different part of the city. when you get to the Elsworth House come straight west about 1/2 mile and you will see some houses, look for a small new barn and a well near it at the bottom of Prospect Hill. I like to live here very well - by going to the other side of the hill I have a very pleasant walk along the side …
Letter From Sarah Muir Galloway To Daniel H. Muir, 1863 May 15, Sarah Muir Galloway
Letter From Sarah Muir Galloway To Daniel H. Muir, 1863 May 15, Sarah Muir Galloway
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Fountain Lake May 15th /63
My Dear Brother as David is going to Portage to marrow I thought I would write you a few lines. I often think about you and wonder how you are getting along, have you found any pleasant acquaintances yet is your health good are you in good spirits and all that I wish you would write and tell me all about it is it really true that they are going to send all you run away's from the draft home again that will be rather a hard job wont it Dan to be sent home …
Letter From Duncan Paton To John Muir, 1863 May 7, Duncan Paton
Letter From Duncan Paton To John Muir, 1863 May 7, Duncan Paton
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Markesan May 7th/60
Dear Friend: Yours in reply to mine has just come to hand, and glad am I to learn that you are still persevering with the spirit of a true Scotchman, and that in a good cause. But what are you fitting for John? You tell me that you are studying Greek. I would infer from that, that you design becoming a minister of the gospel. If that is the case John I shall be glad to know that you have so concluded, and I hope to God that I may one day have the honor of sitting …
Letter From Sarah M. Galloway To John Muir, 1863 Apr 29, Sarah Muir Galloway
Letter From Sarah M. Galloway To John Muir, 1863 Apr 29, Sarah Muir Galloway
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
[1863] Fountain Lake April 29
My Dear Brother we received you letter and [likeness?] three or four weeks ago somehow you looked so sad and solemn I could not help crying over it but when I take into consideration the circumstances under which you had them taken I do not wonder you look so. when I think of Mrs Pelton it is as of one I know and love. when you had newly left home weary unwell and homesick many a time she was very kind to you though a stranger "a friend in need is a friend indeed" and …
Letter From David G. Muir To John Muir, 1863 Apr 11, David G. Muir
Letter From David G. Muir To John Muir, 1863 Apr 11, David G. Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
I was glad to see your picture I will send mine but they cant make good photographs here. I will send a daguerro
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seen and met Mother several times, and mother would not speak to her, nor look at her. At this she felt so grieved that she cried whole nights about it and concluded that we had better give it up I don't know how it will end but we wont give up if I can help it Please to write soon and tell me what I had better do about it I hope you wont expose me …
Letter From E. W. Pelton To John Muir, 1863 Mar 22, E. W. Pelton
Letter From E. W. Pelton To John Muir, 1863 Mar 22, E. W. Pelton
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Prairie du Chin Mar 22/63 3 - 30 PM Friend John There is no very partic- -ular change in Mrs Peltons case I think on the whole she has been more comfortable since my return from Madison than [illegible] you stay [illegible] But at times she is very bad, and seems to suffer greatly Her life is gradually ebling out [illegible]ful that I must surely soon past with her - that there is no [illegible] for her in this world She appeared much interested in the [illegible] wanted [me?] to bring them in and pick out the [illegible] ones Which …
Letter From C. F. Oiebdy To John Muir, 1863 Mar 13, C. F. Oiebdy
Letter From C. F. Oiebdy To John Muir, 1863 Mar 13, C. F. Oiebdy
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Tank City Wis. March 13/63.
Mr Muir: Dear Sir: Your letters has been received but a few days ago and I was sorry to hear that you had such a bad opinion of me. About three weeks after I was in Madison the last time I was taken sick with the with the typhoid fever, and [illegible] [illegible] got been well since. I can now walk around and intend to resume my school again on Monday next.
For this reason I have not been able to fulfill my promises. I do not now know wheth er you are in Madison …
Letter From James A. Sweany To John Muir, 1863 Mar 6, James A. Sweany
Letter From James A. Sweany To John Muir, 1863 Mar 6, James A. Sweany
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Portage Friday evening, March 6 '63
Friend Muir, I have arrived here safe and sound after a day's rough riding, and just in time to take the letter out of the P.O. that my father mailed for me today. I was right in my conjective that it would have arrived there tomorrow evening. I think also that you will not be disappointed if you shall expect me from home by tomorrow night for when I went up to your [illegible] to deliver the book and letter they said that they had mailed a letter for you - I now send …
Letter From David M. Galloway To John Muir, 1863 Mar 2, David M. Galloway
Letter From David M. Galloway To John Muir, 1863 Mar 2, David M. Galloway
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
[4] if we could have made it out, I suppose you will have heard by this time of Maggie's little Jessie she is a fine stout baby, I had a note from Maggie lately she feels somewhat better and not quite so nervous as she has been for some time back, her girl of sixty left her in a few weeks taking with her two rolls of Maggie's butter and telling some one she had given her one for her Christmas & the other for her New year's and that [illegible] could work as well as her, so much for …
Letter From Joanna Muir To John Muir, 1863 Feb, Joanna Muir
Letter From Joanna Muir To John Muir, 1863 Feb, Joanna Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Mr. John Muir Care of Mr [Frogens?] Esq Madison Wis
Father started for John all the letters Madison Feb 11th Monday that ever comes to see you and give you Father has got to get the money but when hold of them - 00315 00315
To the Royal Highness of Mr John Muir of Madison Sir I humbly claim your attention to the products of my bur oak conception - if I ever visit Madison I shal be happy to se the tree that Pockyhontis gnawed down and the remains in the inside of the tree. Mr. Kafgon has come …
Letter From Margaret Muir Reid To John Muir, 1863 Feb, Margaret Muir Reid
Letter From Margaret Muir Reid To John Muir, 1863 Feb, Margaret Muir Reid
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
round Mrs Cripps has been very sick this winter and several children have died of that throat disease. May we so live that when death comes we will be ready Fight on fight on till death Shall bring thee to thy God He ll take thee at thy parting breath To His divine abode I am comming to see you whenever I am able, but I expect to see you first Good bye From Your affectionate Sister Margt
493 Dear John [Feb. 1863] I feel as if I had fairly got out of the way of writing letters I hardly …
Letter From John Reid To John Muir, 1863 Jan 29, John Reid
Letter From John Reid To John Muir, 1863 Jan 29, John Reid
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Buffalo Wis Jany 29th 1863
Friend John enclosed you will find a draft of $15, less exchange that is $10 for yourself and the other five is to get a washing machine and send it to portage city for me that will make $55 that you will receive from me I paid David five dollars which he said that you owe him and that he said that you had given him liberty to get it from me please endorse the amount on the note and that will Keep it all right for changes [it very sudden sometime?], Margaret has been …
Letter From Harry A. Varnell To John Muir, 1863 Jan 25, Harry A. Varnell
Letter From Harry A. Varnell To John Muir, 1863 Jan 25, Harry A. Varnell
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
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Chicago Sunday Jan 25th, 1863
Friend John Muir As it is sunday evening I will try to write you a few lines and let you know how we all are I am well and expect to start to school tomorrow I have been to work to palmers for two dollars a week. Father and Mother are well but mother has been sick but is about well now Father is to work at the Butcher Buisnes he is doing very well it is as warm as Summer here now not a bit of snow is to be found and as …
Letter From Sarah Muir Galloway To John Muir, 1863 Jan 4, Sarah Muir Galloway
Letter From Sarah Muir Galloway To John Muir, 1863 Jan 4, Sarah Muir Galloway
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Fountain Lake Jan 4th 1863 My Dear Brother, here I am again with another of my scrawl's I hope you are well we are all pretty well except a little cold we were over at Maggie's on New Year's day. Father Dan Mary & Anna were there also Andrew Hendry & Duncan Reid and another girl by the name of Maitland, we had quite a pleasant time I wished you had been there too. I believe Mother would have been up too but she has a bad sore on her leg she does not know whither it is what is …
Letter From John Muir To Mary E. Newton ?, [1863 Dec], John Muir
Letter From John Muir To Mary E. Newton ?, [1863 Dec], John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
And is little Elmer really dead - seemingly so well and happy upon my knee and so soon away to the tomb. I sent you a picture my boy just a few weeks ago. I thought of you as the same gleeful little fellow in the parlor with Willie, or receiving your fond mothers kisses. Ah, little did I think that the chill winds were then heaping the frozen snows upon your grave. Yes, your little boy is dead, Mrs. Newton. The silver cord is loosed, but, as you have said, ΓÇÿall is well.ΓÇÖ He is plucked away in the …
The War And Slavery, And Their Relations To Each Other : A Discourse, Delivered In The Old South Church, Reading, Mass., December 28, 1862, William Barrows
The War And Slavery, And Their Relations To Each Other : A Discourse, Delivered In The Old South Church, Reading, Mass., December 28, 1862, William Barrows
Civil War Text
This pamphlet is a discourse delivered by Reverend William Barrows about the relations between the War and Slavery. The pamphlet is a second edition and, as noted on the title page, was "published by request."
Campaigns Of 1862 And 1863, Illustrating The Principles Of Strategy
Campaigns Of 1862 And 1863, Illustrating The Principles Of Strategy
Civil War Text
This book reviews the military operations of the campaigns of 1862 and 1863. It contains diagrams and four map plates that fold out and depict the following: Plate I, the geographic zones (left zone, center zone, right zone) of the Southern Confederacy; Plate II, the position of the Union troops and Rebels within the geography of the Southern Confederacy; Plate III, the Union troops in the offensive, Rebels in the defensive, Union troops after the Rebels have taken the offensive, and the Rebels in the offensive within the geography of the Southern Confederacy in the campaign of 1862; Plate IV, …
Letter From David G. Muir To John Muir, 1862 Dec 31, David G. Muir
Letter From David G. Muir To John Muir, 1862 Dec 31, David G. Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Portage City Dec 31st 1862.
Dear John I believe I wrote last but as I see no sign of your answering I must write again. The folks are all well, Maggie is about the same as she was last summer Hope you are well my son, I am still trotting around the counter tearing rags [illegible] fine business for winter. It will do a fellow more good in the way of sharpening, and trading, than teaching I think. I wonder who on earth you don't write a letter to let us know how you are getting along, and how the …
Letter From Alfred Bradley Brown To John Muir, 1862 Nov 26, Alfred Bradley Brown
Letter From Alfred Bradley Brown To John Muir, 1862 Nov 26, Alfred Bradley Brown
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Camp Dennison, Ohio Nov 2[8?]st, 1862
My Dear Friend I received you kind and welcome letter a few days ago, and was glad to hear from you. I am here at Camp D. yet but hope I shall not stay here long. My health is pretty good, though not as good as of yours. I see you are inclined to fear that I shall be tempted to mingle with bad company and the vices of camp-dear friend; I think I am equal to the task before me, and my highest sin will be as a duty to myself and friends, …