Title:
Letter from John Muir to Helen [Muir], 1908 Apr 16.
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:
1908 Apr 16
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir17_0406-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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 April 16, 1908 Alone at the old home Darling Helen, I left Pasadena Sunday eve, got to Barstow 1.30 Monday
morning, found No. 7 annulled on account of a burned bridge this side of Holbrook a wreck farther east, got on my train again,
went to bed to the Needles, botanized there most all of Monday, got on the train No 7 at 6 o'clock arrived here Tuesday eve.
Wanda intended starting for Daggett Monday eve but Mrs Hanna was taken sick could not take care of baby. Next day Wanda was
taken tick suddenly had to go to the Berkeley doctors, but she is better hopes to get back home in a few days well as ever
Maggie too has been sick but is now better. I feel very much better after Pasadena visit am hard at work on Stickeen? for
a little book. I never before saw the garden here looking so well. The roses are perfectly glorious, finer than any I saw
in Pasadena Write every day as usual to your lonely loving father John Muir in margin: My Kindest regard to the Van Dykes
Funks.