Title:
Letter from John Muir to Helen [Muir], 1909 Jan 2.
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:
1909 Jan 2
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir18_0022-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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 Jan. 2, 1909. Darling Helen: I wish you with all my heart a happy new year. Heaven guide you shine on all your ways.
Margaret tired herself out on Christmas work but is getting better again. The weather here has been constant fog or rain.
Today is warmer tho rainy. The hills showing green. I am so glad you are out of this semitropical climate of the bay region,-
the winter gloom of the golden state. I suppose you have more deeds to sign. Return to me when signed Write often- to your
affectionate father, John Muir. I must try to get some pine apples