Title:
Letter from John Muir to Helen [Muir Funk], 1911 May 30.
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:
1911 May 30
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir20_0335-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
New York
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
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Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
kind. I'm trying to finish the book on Yosemite before I set out for the other America. I got a copy of My First Summer from
the publishers two or three days ago. It looks well. In a week or so it will be in the stores. I'm so glad your little boy
is thriving is so dear a child. I haven't heard from Wanda since I left California. Give my kindest regards to Buel his mother
that little girl. Devotedly your father John Muir 1911 letterhead New York May 30 Darling Helen, Your letter
recd yesterday, telling our dear Sellers death Sunday, made me sad lonely. I suppose you know that J. D. Hooker the friend
in our greatest need was taken violently ill the day of dear Seller's death died Wednesday evening. And Keith too gone. I
wonder if leaves feel lonely when they see their neighbors falling. Mrs. Harriman is exceedingly