Title:
Letter from John Muir to Helen [Muir Funk], [1914] Feb 11.
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 Funk]
Date:
[1914] Feb 11
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir22_0160-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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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:
Darling Helen It is delightful that you are actually growing stoat and plump after coming through so many lean dismal years
when half your flesh flow away again and again after short intervals of returning health. I am glad that yon are hawing such
fine weather for house building. All sorts of good luck comes to you those days. After a month or more of about the most dismal
weather I ever saw in California we have enjoyed balmy sunshine with but little fog, very little frost, for about two weeks.
The hills are green and the early plum trees are already in bloom. My cough has all but vanished and like the trees I am awakening
to newness of life. To all your dear little family I send ay love and please remember NO with all good wishes to Judge Van
Dyke who did so much for us in the dark days of your worst sickness. Ever your devoted father, illegible February eleventh.
1914