Title:
Letter from Helen [Muir Funk] to John Muir, 1911 Aug 2.
Creator:
Helen [Muir Funk]
Publisher:
University of the Pacific Library Holt-Atherton Special Collections. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies
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Contributor:
John Muir
Date:
1911 Aug 2
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir20_0563-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 28 x 21.5 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Martinez, Calif.
Rights:
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Transcription:
Martinez,Cal August 2, i9ii 190 Dear Papa: Your nice letter of July 29th came a few minutes ago and I am so glad to hear
from you. We are well, all three of us,and enjoying the change and the good fruit, tho both Buel and I are beginning to feel
shut in by the hills and so many trees. But it is doing us good , and the weather keeps warm and sunny, and not a bit like
the fogey days of June a year ago. We eat and sleep splendidland I have felt no hint of cold or old trouble and am confident
that I am as sound as any one. How I wish you could see our little boy with his pink cheks and bright eyes and ready smile.
Ione is here for the week, and is charmed with Muir and likes to carry him around and talk to him. Wanda is pretty well. The
two boys are well and lively and little John thinks the ba by is lovely. He told Wanda that Muir was his balay, that Aunt
Helen was taking care of it for him. I have put up some fruit to take home to the dosort, and enjoy the work. I am glad the
Yosome to book is so nearly off yours hands,and better still that you are standing the hard work so well and can keep comfortable.
And so you start on your long journey on the I5th, God keep you safe. May you keep well and enjoy this great now part of the
world as much as you did well Zealand with its wonderful forests. write when you can, and give me your first address as soon
as you know what it will be. I will write once more before you sail. Lovingly always Helen. 05085