Title:
Letter from [John Muir] to [Mary Muir], [1870] May 15.
Creator:
[John Muir]
Publisher:
John Muir National Historic Site. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to
publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Contributor:
[Mary Muir]
Date:
[1870] May 15
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir02_0268-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Yosemite Val[ley, 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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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:
1 1870 Yosemite Val' May 15 Dear Sister. I recd a letter last evening from Prof Butler stating that you had called when
both he his wife were absent. He hopes that you will call again - says that he will be very happy to know you to assist you
in any way that may be in his power After making his acquaintance you will feel more at home in the beautiful loving illegible
illegible His conversation is very witty cheerful instructive has a big illegible heart His son Henry is one of my very best
most affectionate friends You must seek his acquaintance too, which will all be easy when he knows that you are my sister.
The little girls are also well worth knowing I am well acquainted with Gracey? 2 susa Charlie Sterling. Please remember
me to them I wish Mrs Carr had been in Madison She is a most enthusiastic lover of Botany nature in general also of Music
sketching She would have assisted you very much What are you studying It is long since I heard from you I know that like Mendota
is very beautiful now the banks having illegible Anemones. Send me one or two of Anemone illegible An' Nattaliana - send some
of them seeds in the fall The snow is melting on the mtns' the falls here are in glorious tune. Spring is far advanced the
oaks are in leaf thirty or fourty kinds of plants are in flower. I anxiously? wish you success in margin: Farewell, Address,
Yosemite California Care JM Hutchings via Big Oak Flat