Title:
Letter from Joanna [Muir Brown] to Sister Mary [Muir Hand], 1885 Nov 15.
Creator:
Joanna [Muir Brown]
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:
Sister Mary [Muir Hand]
Date:
1885 Nov 15
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir05_0541-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Kansas City, Mo.
Rights:
Copyright status unknown
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Transcription:
29 Kansas City Mo Nov 15. 1885 Dear sister Mary: - Your letter was a great pleasure to me. I can hardly tell why best
your kind expressions? seem to have the effect of lifting my heart illegible had posted under such depressing circumstances
and when I was feeling so incapable of doing anything for your comfort during your trip that I had a sad feeling every time
I thought of you, which was frequent. Consequently I just needed your letter. I am so glad that after all your visit deleted:
in all did you good and you are now so comfortable. May it continue. How good you are to think of giving the pretty paintings
to me. I can hardly wait to see them. I wish I could make something pretty for you, maybe I will sometime. I shall not write
a long letter this time as I am tired and it is getting dark. I have been in margin: writing and arranging flowers of the
funeral nearly all afternoon. I have made a little bouquett for nearly every member of the family and now enclose one for
you. I have not sent John one but have sent him a beautiful illegible of Fathers illegible Have you a nice illegible ? Remember
us to Willis if he is home. Walter is away for a few days. Have not yet succeeded in getting? a illegible , but have a boy
come to do chores. Love to the little boys. Lovingly yours Always? Joanna