Title:
Letter from A. H. Sellers to [John Muir], 1901 Sep 9.
Creator:
A. H. Sellers
Publisher:
University of the Pacific Library Holt-Atherton Special Collections. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies
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Contributor:
[John Muir]
Date:
1901 Sep 9
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir11_0856-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 27 x 21 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Chicago
Rights:
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Transcription:
CHICAGO Sep't 9th 1901. Martinez, Cal. My Dear Friend:- We received yours of the 24th ult with newspaper clipping,which
I enclose herewith. Tomorrow my old company is to be merged in the big consolidation, and further proceedings will interest
me but little.So the next day wife and I will leave for our cottage in Wisconsin, where we expect to remain till the last
of October. Now about the typewriter; we have about 30 machines in use in our office, seven dlffrent makes.I talked, today
with one of cur best and oldest writers, and she tells me that the Remington is by long odds the best. She says there are
some things about the later machines that are nice tho' not necessary, but, as she expressed it, they ere half the time in
the hospital , she means for repairs.I am sure you will find the machine a great aid in your work, and that Helen will really
enjoy worKing on it, will learn to use it and with rapidity, especialy if she car at the start take a few lessons illegible
n fingering. The Remington people will eive the necessary lessons without chairge.Now if you would have her take lessons in
short hand, and when she has learned so as tc take your talk as fast as you speak, which is not fast, then you sit down and
tell Wanda orany person what you wish ic say, Helen can take it in short hand, cory it out on the machine, and yQU will find
it better than you can write it. with kind regards to you all I remain Your sincere friend 02889