Title:
Letter from John Muir to Parsons [family], 1912 Dec 22.
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:
Parsons [family]
Date:
1912 Dec 22
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir20_1512-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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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:
Martinez, Dec. 22, 1912 Dear Mr Mrs Parsons With all my heart I wish you a happy New Year. And encouraged by your kindness
I venture to request that with enclosed check you get a dozen five dollar gold pieces and give one of them to Frances Peterson,
one to the Gorrels child, one to each of Colby's two children, to each of Prof Jos LeConte's two, to each of Charlie Keelers
three, one to his friend Simmons? girl who with her father mother camped with Charlie in Yosemite years ago. and one to each
of the ever young elderly children of the Moss Hill Edward Marian to all with my love oblige Your sincere friend John
Muir