Title:
Letter from John Muir to Helen [Muir], 1909 Apr 4.
Creator:
John Muir
Publisher:
The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of
the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Contributor:
Helen [Muir]
Date:
1909 Apr 4
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir18_0357-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Martinez, Calif.
Rights:
Copyrighted
The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission
to publish or exhibit them, see
http://library.pacific.edu/ha/forms
Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
Martinez, California, April 4, 1909. Darling Helen: All goes well up here. The neighbors as far as I have heard are well.
Mrs. Swett better than she has been for years Tom told me last evening that he was going to bring Wanda home next Tuesday.
Everybody inquires kindly for you. Everything, it seems, that happens to you makes you more famous, but my, what a price.
Be monstrous careful hereafter never to add to your fame in any such wicked way as taking desert poison. The country is looking
fine. Old Fong has been away most of the time of my absence but he is here now and I will set him to work again. The garden
is looking fine. Don't think of leaving your present quarters until I return - probably in four or five days or a week.
Ever your devoted father. illegible Miss Helen Muir, Los Angeles, California.