Title:
Letter from John Muir to Helen [Muir], 1908 Aug 1.
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 [Muir]
Date:
1908 Aug 1
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir17_0798-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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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:
Home Aug. 1, 1908. Darling Helen, I was in S. F. yesterday sent you a lot of semi-edible knicknacks from Goldberg. Tom
sent you peaches. Your own are just beginning to ripen are rather small, but the best of them will not seem worthless on the
hot desert. The pears are still too green but Ill send some in a week or two to ripen in the Mohave oven. Be careful about
drinking too much ice water, getting too tired, or suddenly chilled. In particular be careful how you undertake excursions
at this time of year away from the ranch however good your companions. Here is another deed to sign which Coleman handed
me. I feel the heat here (about 85 in my room) too oppressive for good work Lots of north wind mosquitoes. I sleep on your
balcony. I expect a letter today from you. Ever lovingly devotedly your father J.M