Title:
Letter from Octavine C. Briggs to John Muir, 1900 Jul 4.
Creator:
Octavine C. Briggs
Publisher:
University of the Pacific Library Holt-Atherton Special Collections. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies
of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Contributor:
John Muir
Date:
1900 Jul 4
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir11_0270-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 17.5 x 22.5 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
San Francisco
Rights:
Copyright status unknown
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Transcription:
When they are sick and in poverty I go in and work to make them well. We are pretty quiet in our little home and pretty poor
so everything that helps makes us glad - Thank you illegible so much Sincerely yours Octavine C. Briggs San Francisco.
452 1/2 Lehama St. 452 1/2 Lehama Street July 4, 1900 My dear Mr Muir, It made me glad when you sent that money by
Mr Ke stler? for my nursing work - You see I live down here among the poor people and am quite alone with just a house-keeper.
Our work isn't charity because we are just friends to the neighbors. 02708