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Letter From Frances N. Pelton To John Muir, 1862 Jul 11, Frances N. Pelton

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

almost every thing except nature would remind you of decay. Our Hills & Mountains & Rocks of Granite would be a Substitute for your "Scottish Highlands". The same stream of water runs before the door that has since my remembrance as clear as chrystal. Some of the shrubs that I planted years ago are still alive. I am enjoying myself very much here tho I am not able to wait upon myself much. I hope that a few months among the mountains will revive and recruit me. If my "little Fannie" had lived she would have been 3 years old …

Letter From David? Muir To John Muir, 1862 Jun 8, David Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

City of Portage June 8th .62

Dear brother John I have only to inform you of fine weather Pleasant swimming a good School and getting along firstrate etc the weather though sometimes pretty warm does not at all bother me in the schoolroom which is generaly very comfortable, and I go in swimming about every day. I think I am getting along pretty well with my studies now the longer I study I think I get along thee easyer it don't take me more than half as long to get a lesson now as it did in winter, in all …

Letter From C. H. Wildish To John Muir, 1862 Jun 2, C. H. Wildish

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4] I have not got my certificate yet I am going after it next Saturday. Send Davids Address

Mine is Sussex [Wankesha?] Co. Wis.



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School Room June 2nd/62 Dear [Muhis?] I have got my dollar and what is better your letter too. All your apologies for not sending it before are useless for I knew that it would have been forth coming before if something was not the matter. But enough about the old dollar suffice it to say that it has given me no trouble and that should you be placed in like circumstances again I shall-if …

Letter From Sarah Muir Galloway To John Muir, 1862 May 18, Sarah Muir Galloway

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4]

My Dear Brother John as Sarah wants me to write to you, I will more for form than anything else try if I can scrawl over this page I feel in no great humour today, I was in Portage yesterday and most of the way home it rain’d like “[siscly?]” and at night when “tired natures sweet restorer” should have embraced me I was wrestling with the toothache; I have had a very busy spring; one month from the time I commenced to [sow?] I had all my corn planted, the fact is John I have barely time to …

Letter From Ann Gilrye Muir To John Muir, 1862 May 12, Ann Gilrye Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4] Dan seems to think you have forgotten him altogether - and the rest of us are all much of the same opinion I hope you will be persuaded to write something to us all very soon. I suppose your time is precious, but write soon, tell us if you have made up your mind to be here at harvest time, we will be glad to see you -

from your affectionate Mother _____________ _________


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[1] Portage May 12th, 1862 Dear John For a while after you left us for Madison I thought you had surely stuck fast in …

Letter From Margaret Muir Reid To John Muir, 1862 Apr 24, Margaret Muir Reid

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Jeddo Wis April 27th/62 Friend John This morning John I thought that I would write you a few lines along with the rest I am gone every day up to the nursery selling trees while the season last. Everest requested me to stay one month from the 7th of April to the 7th of May I have been three week now. I am selling trees more or less every day for D. S Wood worth & H. B. Eveerest. There will be from four to five thousand trees sould out of the nursery this year. The farmers here are all …

Letter From Mrs. R. Squire To John Muir, 1862 Apr 14, Mrs R. Squire

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4] kindness you have shown me this from your naughty [hapil?] Alice [M.?] Squire


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[1] Oregon April 19th 1862 Mr. Muir it is always pleasant to be remembered by those for whom we entertain kind feelings, Therefore when I received your Grattitude so beautifully expressed, my heart was filled with a mixture of gladness & regret, Glad if indeed there existed any cause for Grattitude, Regret that there was so little, We appretiate your kindness & example, & hope when you come among us again, you will meet with a pleasant & hearty welcome, I hope you had a …

Letter From Anne Annie L. Muir To John Muir, 1862 Spring, Anne L. Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4] Dear Brother I have been on the farm and spent two weeks there. I go to the forth ward now and my Teachers name is Mrs [Cornwall?] We have to go to school seven weeks more and then we will have a vacation and [I is glad to see you soon?]

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Dear Brother John [time since I deleted] it is a long time since I wrote to you last but I rather think it is a great deal longer since you have written to me. We are all as well as usual and I …

The New York Times

Civil War Text

The New York Times, Vol. XI-No. 3283, Tuesday, April 1, 1862. Oversized newspaper consisting of 8 pages. This issue includes headline news from Washington.

Letter From John Muir To Frances N. Pelton, 1862 Mar 27, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

4.) but though these shall have a place in my heart they can never take yours. [The picture referred to below was in fine pencil work [illegible] with a margin of leaves in each of which was written "True friends never die." The picture (about 18 x 24) was evenltually stolen among other effects from E W Pelton] You wished to have some machinery to appear in my picture, this could not easily be, so I took a drawing of my desk which I shall send you soon. There is writing under that paper which belongs only to you; perhaps …

Letter From John Reid To John Muir, 1862 Mar 10, John Reid

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Buffalo Wis Monday night Dear Friend John [It is?] Monday evening and about 8 oclock and they say that I must write a few lines to you Now John I have not much to write since you went away there has been a change taken place amongst us I have traded back my place to Everest and nursery and I am working at your fathers for $20 per month I don't know whether I shall work all summer or not I have the use of my old place for one one year and Everest is not satisfied with me leaving …

Letter From Anne Annie L. Muir To John Muir, 1862 Mar 2, Anne L. Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

March 2nd Dear Brother John: are you quite well we are all pretty well here. I am attending the high school I like it very well Mary and myself stay up stairs most of the time where Miss Brigs teaches I like her firstrate we recite all of our lessons to Miss Brigs with the exception of our grammer lesson we go down to Mr Magoffin to recite that. the Saturday before last was George Washingtons birthday and there was a celebration among the schools we all gathered at the school house as usual in the morning at about 9 …

Letter From Ann Gilrye Muir To John Muir, 1862 Mar 1, Ann Gilrye Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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he looks very thin and pale - your father has bought a house and lot he is getting a small barn put up and getting a well dug. They call it three quarter of a mile from miles corner it is beyond the railroad station - we will not move for a month or so as it is occupied - there has been a great fire at the station a long row of houses have been burned and the elevator containing thousands of bushels of wheat was burned to the ground - your father had about …

Letter From Joanna G. ? Muir To John Muir, 1862 Mar 1, Joanna G. Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4] in portage better now I begin to know the girls now and I think that is part of the reason why I like to stay in the city the girls some times sings the [illegible]white an[illegible] and D[illegible] and Star Spangled banner and I think I will soon learn to sing them. Ma Sends her love to you ans So do I. be Sure and come [illegible] write Soon.

From your affectionate Sister

Joanna Y Muir

[1] Family March 1st 1862 Dear John I hope you are well we are pretty well. I like to go to school very …

Letter From John Muir To Sarah Muir Galloway And David Galloway, 1862 Feb 9, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Feb 9th [4] the slughing is good now Ask for Oak hall which is about 10 miles from Madison South then ask for McKuby's district, or if you don't wish to come to school I will be in Madison any day you set you had better come to school t[illegible] and I will give you a lecture I lecture every Saturday evening on chemistry or [illegible] Philosophy sometimes to sixty or seventy you know it does not require much [illegible] to be a district school philosopher Dave has'nt visited my school nor I his But I saw him once and …

Letter From Ann Gilrye Muir To John Muir, 1862 Jan 10, Ann Gilrye Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4] Jan 10 62 City of Portage Dear John I have been at school al day but still I can write a little and I don't se why you can't I have been expecting ofne for along time. I am getting so I can study like sixty feel fine and get along nicely & do well and hope this will find you the the same. I wish your school was out so that I can come down there the folks here are scouring out my brain rather roughly but all the better I suppose. I wish you would tell me …

Letter From Sarah Muir Galloway To John Muir, 1862 Jan 5, Sarah Muir Galloway

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Jan. 4, 1862 Fountain Lake January 4th

My much loved Brother how I have [illegible] for a few lines from you but I suppose you are so busy with your school and other things you find little time I very often think about you and wonder if you are happy & comfortable or if you take much pleasure in you present occupation how does your nerves stand it, and are you not afraid it make you cross like David keeping such a long face all the time and trying to keep so many little ones still which is almost impossible …

An Address Delivered In Saco, Oct.12, 1862 On The One Hundreth Anniversary Of The Organization Of The First Church In Saco, Me., Edward Strong Dwight

Maine Collection

An Address Delivered in Saco, Oct.12, 1862 on the One Hundreth Anniversary of the Organization of the First Church in Saco, Me.

by Edward Strong Dwight, 1820-1890

Saco (Maine): William Noyes, Printer, 1862.

Letter From Harvey Reid To John Muir, 1861 Dec 29, Harvey Reid

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4] see Madison again. My parents and family moved two weeks ago to Carroll Co. Northern Illinois, where I shall join them in the spring, and I shall probably not have an opportunity of attending school again. But I hope to still keep up acquaintance there by a correspondence with you. Write and let me know how you like your new occupation, and whether you have achieved any new triumph in mechanics lately. Ever your friend Harvey Reid


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Union Grove, Dec. 29th 1861 Dear Friend John Muir: - It was with the greatest pleasure that I received and …

Letter From Ann Gilrye Muir To John Muir, 1861 Dec 1, Ann Gilrye Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4] so John had little left - but Margt said if she was poor she was out of debt and felt satisfied - about a week ago your father hired John Reid to take care of his farm in his absence - so John and Margt are coming here to live, as soon as she is able to ride this length, her baby is healthy but she is still weak - affairs round here seem to have changed as much as the face of Nature since you left home - I hope you will write soon from your affectionate Mother …

Letter From Ann Gilrye Muir To David Muir, 1861 Dec 1, Ann Gilrye Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4] you have much need to take care of your self is there any meetings in the district where you are you will know by this time - is there any change in your Post office address let us know when you write - from your affectionate Mother


[1] Dec. 1st 1861 Dear David For all the time you have been from home you have never wrote one word to me, it seems strange I want to know if you are well and I want to know if you like teaching I hope you do, I hope you have made …

Letter From Mary Muir To John Muir, 1861 Nov 24, Mary Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Dear John Nov. 24th I thought I might as well write a few lines to you as not as I am not going any place this sunday I hope you are well we are all well. the ground is all covered with snow today which is a sure sign that winter is coming on. where abouts is your school is it neer Davids we do not know whither there is going to be any school in our district this win -ter or not. last Tuseday there was a little girl came to live with Margaret and her name is Anne …

Letter From Mary Muir To David Muir, 1861 Nov 24, Mary Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Haloo my brother David November 24 1861 Please sir how do you do I wish I were permited To come and visit you I must not forget you David I shall like very well to see I hope you will like to teach you must keep good ordor and you must not be to har[illegible] on the small scholars or they will perhaps begin to want to stay at home I hate to see small scholars abused I used to pity some of them last winter William Reid went away last night and I suppose David will go away next …

Letter From Daniel Muir To John Muir, 1861 Nov 24, Daniel Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

You will find $12 inclosed - acknowledge receipt soon

T. of Buffalo 24 Nov. 1861. Dear son John I received yours of the 18th Inst. I was glad to hear of your good health & welfare. also of your diligence in Study I pray you that you forget not eternity in midst of all your Studies. I entreat you to mind to do all that you do with an eye to eternity. & to mind that you have but one life to live & it may not be a long one. See ps. 39, 4-7 and Job 7, 6"my days …

Letter From Margaret Muir Reid To John Muir And David Muir, 1861 Oct 4, Margaret Muir Reid

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1] Hickory Hill Dear Brothers John and David I am going to fill up Joannas paper if I can but am hardly able to write I was not able to do my work so I though I would spend a few weeks in visiting and let John batch it I spent about a week at Sarahs and have been almost a week here but I am going home Sunday with [illegible]ilnord French to do my work John finding [it?] took too much of his time to boil his potatoes and fry his pork my nerves are miserable and I have …

Letter From John Muir To David Galloway And Sarah Muir Galloway, 1861 Fall, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1] [Fall, 1861]

Dear David and Sarah I hope you and the little ones are well and happy David and John are so and perhaps even contented too We walked from Portage to Watsons I was tired but not so tired as I feared I'd be. Watsons were well, we arrived about dark They were sur- prised and happy to see us and gave us a sound welcome after they [sent?] h[illegible] [illegible] was; for though some of them kind o knew Dave none seemed able to claim acquaintance with me Next day we walked to Madison. we could see …

Letter From Daniel H. Muir To John Muir, Ca. 1861 Sep 29, Daniel H. Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Post [illegible] with [illegible]

Directions in Address

Mr David Henry [Cowsser?] Portage City Wis


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Hickory Hill Sept. 29th

Brother John I received your letter on fast-day as we were coming home from meeting in which I found some very fine calculations but this is only a note I also found "something" yet nothing I told you in my last letter it was All done, I meant that which was in the bottle I therefore as you gave me liberty send for some more you said I must cheer up well I have a good while



ago and much reason …

Letter From Daniel Muir To John Muir And David Muir, 1861 Sep 7, Daniel Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Town of Buffalo 7th Sep 1861 Dear Children I have Sent you inclosed ten Dollars as it all I can Spare just now let me know when you are in great need & I shall again try 7 give you more I have Seen Some mistakes Since you went away 7 have put them right I have [put 5 1/2 days more of grubbing of 6 farms acct?] which amounts to 412 1/2 cents and the Same to Davids with 484 Cents besids which his grand father gave him when he left Dunbar, if I have before [illegible]ted it in …

Letter From Harvey Reid To John Muir, 1861 Jul 28, Harvey Reid

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4] sides, their gaping and ghastly wounds telling of the fearful horrors of warfare. Why do Christian people [illegible] to such terrible means of settling disputes? This is called by some a holy war but to my mind there is little of holiness in sending thousands of unprepared sons to eternity through the bloody gates of a Sabbath fought battle. I am sorry for the failure of your patent scheme; but do not think that invention would have [illegible] very large profits. Yankees are lazy, you know and like to lie abed o' mornings. But you will succeed better next …

Letter From Eveline Merrill To John Muir, 1861 Jul 17, Eveline Merrill

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

are all very, very happy. I know the pleasures of such meetings after a long absence Would that I could drop in upon your just now, instead of writing, and see "father, and mother, and Maggie, and Sarah". Remember me kindly to them all, and tell them I feel almost acquainted with them through you. I know I would like them. Perhaps I could "play Maggie" better were I to see her. You know John what I did the best I could, under the cir- cumstances. I have had a good visit from my brother at Janesville, and expect him …