Title:
Letter from Roland & G[eorge] Hansen to John Muir, 1906 Dec 24.
Creator:
Roland & G[eorge] Hansen
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:
1906 Dec 24
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir16_0468-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 28 x 21.5 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Berkeley, Calif.
Rights:
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Transcription:
GEO. HANSEN LANDSCAPE, ARCHITECT 2705 HEARST AVENUE, BERKELEY, CAL. ADVISORY ARCHITECT TO PARK COMMISSIONS, MUNICIPALITES
AND CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONS TELEPHONE BERKELEY 745 illegible Dec. 24th., 1906 Merry Christmas Good Man, That was
kind of you to send us send us such word of cheer. There is always room for such, and it is kept in a place where it resounds
well. A shower of good-will and presents has reached us for Thanks giving Day, and we do not know why all this. Tell Wanda
not to mind when she runs the needle ever and again into her fingers while he makes those dainties. There is never a period
in the life like that one. Neither let her forbid her husband to fondle all those white garments. When I went to Byron springs
in search of health, I found little in their hog-wallows of mud. But I had a little cambric nighty under my pillow, and I
dreamt like Jacob, and saw cherubs come down form heave. That was my source of health. And to Helen tell for a Christmas
greeting, that people tell me that I just have emerged from five months of serous sickness. Even then they tell me such, I
disbelieve them. For of my two personalities live only in the stronger, and that rises higher with every downward movement
of the other. Sometime the two shall have a quarrel : and then I am well. For I shall have overcome. Only those that are choosen
in the furnace of affliction know that chastisement means not punishment, but purification, and there are not supposed to
be mountains than the calender allows for. The little man is somewhat on his ear because you congratulated him on his ability
to calligraphy his signature. Here is a full measure of his achievements, and no wonder he wishes that Santa Claus might bring
him some marbles anyway, as long as Mama says that he don't come nay longer to boys as big as this little man. Pick some
red berries, and place them in water on your shelf, place them there for us. And it shall be regarded as a candle on an altar
and be counted to you for righteousness. illegible Lovingly 03792