Title:
Letter from Daniel Muir to John Muir and David Muir, 1861 Sep 7
Creator:
Daniel Muir
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 and David Muir]
Date:
1861 Sep 7
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir01_0218-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 25.0 x 19.0 cm
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Buffalo [Wisc.]
Rights:
Copyright status unknown
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Transcription:
Town of Buffalo 7th Sep 1861 Dear Children I have Sent you inclosed ten Dollars as it all I can Spare just now let me know
when you are in great need I shall again try 7 give you more I have Seen Some mistakes Since you went away 7 have put them
right I have put 5 1/2 days more of grubbing of 6 farms acct? which amounts to 412 1/2 cents and the Same to Davids with 484
Cents besids which his grand father gave him when he left Dunbar, if I have before illegible ted it in to his other monies
let him Say So when he writes, we are all well busy giting in thewheat Seed I have gathing mine to write I hope you will get
the money Safe. let me know about it as Soon as you git it your Mother hopes you got Safe to Madison with all your things,
besure please your Heavenly Master by believing his every word keep his commandments. I am yours? affectionally Daniel Muir
P S David? I had carried your account to a new place in my Book where the price of your Sear //8.00 was marked along with
the other So that is Something more Still. D. M.