Title:
Letter from John Muir to [Katharine M.] Graydon, 1906 Dec 15.
Creator:
John Muir
Publisher:
University of the Pacific Library Holt-Atherton Special Collections. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies
of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Contributor:
[Katharine M.] Graydon
Date:
1906 Dec 15
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir16_0438-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Martinez, Calif.
Rights:
Copyrighted
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Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
Original letter returned to Miss Katharine Merrill Graydon . Martinez, California, Dec. 15, '06. My dear Miss Graydon,
We were all glad to hear from you once more in your balmy island home, in good health and hopes after so long a silence. How
letter-mute the whole Merrill family have been for a year or more. The last three years have been full of change and trouble
and anxious care. Helen is still far from well, though much better, and we hope the sick lung will at length be completely
healed. Wanda married a civil engineer,-Mr. Hanna.- Her name and address is now Mrs. Wanda Muir Hanna. Martinez. They are
going to live in the adobe and run the ranch. Helen and I in the big house on the knoll. Sister Maggie is about as usual,
so are the Swetts and Colemans. My brother David and his wife now live in Pacific Grove. I am glad the Graydons are to have
a home of their own. How happy you must be in the planning and building of it. Give them my love when next you write. For
the last three months we have been repairing the earthquake-shaken house, about as big a job as building a new one. As for
books I haven't written a word for the press in the last three years. Surely you will come to see us on your way home. May
you find many blessings in the coming New Year, and believe me, Ever your friend. John Muir *from Honolulu. Envelope
addressed Miss Katherine M. Graydon, Oahu College, Honolulu, H.I. 03785