Title:
Letter from John Muir to [Helen & Wanda Muir], 1906 Feb 27.
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 & Wanda Muir]
Date:
1906 Feb 27
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir16_0120-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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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:
May's Feb. 27/06 Darlings I hope you have come through your first sandstorm un illegible . I don't wonder you had storms
of some kind, for on the way home I encountered almost every sort of weather- wind, snow, rain serene sunshine heat cold etc
Your letter came yesterday I'll be uneasy until I hear that Helen is not seriously hurt by the close air of the bedroom, made
so to keep out sand. I sent a goldberg box soon as I got home, yesterday a box of oranges the best Sun? could find after
strict orders to taste every tree for the sweetest Don't bother about the Baumgart deeds only watch chance when Clark id down
Let me know what you want me to bring ere long for I may return in haste should I hear of more sand winds All here about as
usual. The fruit trees in fall bloom grass 6 inches high - Ever your lover J Muir