Title:
Letter from John Muir to Helen [Muir Funk], 1910 Dec 23.
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 Funk]
Date:
1910 Dec 23
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir19_1013-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Los Angeles
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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:
Los Angeles. Cal., December 23, 1910. 325 West Adams Street. Darling Helen:- Your letter was forwarded from Los Angeles
and I was delighted to find that you were ten pounds fatter after sojourning so short a time on the mountain, and that you
were having such fine weather. I trust that you will gradually be able to soften the feelings of good old Judge Van Dyke.
It troubles me to hear such unpleasant news about him. Last Tuesday, according to instructions in your letter, I sent you
some nuts, raisins, candies, etc., from Goldberg-Bowen by express. I suppose the box will reach you before this letter does.
I arrived here Wednesday morning, saw Colonel Sellers yesterday, and find everybody well and happy. I have just made a beginning
on the Yosemite book. It is going to be a more difficult book to write than I thought, on account of changed conditions which
make pretty much all that I have written heretofore non-available, so that the book will almost have to be wholly original.
Still, I hope to get it off my hands before Spring. Wishing everybody on your alfalfa ranch a Happy New Year and hoping you
will remember me to all the Funks, big and little, and the old Judge, I am, Ever your devoted father, illegible