Title:
Letter from John Muir to [J. E.] Calkins, 1908 Feb 26.
Creator:
John Muir
Publisher:
University of the Pacific Library Holt-Atherton Special Collections. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies
of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Contributor:
[J. E.] Calkins
Date:
1908 Feb 26
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir17_0222-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 20 x 25 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Martinez, Calif.
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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:
This will leave our time less broken by business affairs tho these will not awanting? This must be a dismal letter to you
both but most so to me. Only once before can I recall so deadly crushing a sickness. I am faithfully yours John Muir
Most everybody in our Valley has the Grippe 7 cases in Wanda's family at the Adobe, including Wanda herself baby boy husband
if all got as lean as me it would become like the Valley of dry bones Martinez, Cal. Feb. 26, 1908 Dear Mr Calkins:
I'm very glad to get your good news of Mrs Calkins good health your ableness for work. am sorry I can't send something in
accord with your h earty? encouraging letter I have been am very sick, as unable for literary work as a dead man, with no
hope in sight of getting back to workable health for months. Some time in the dim future we may yet be able to something worth
whil together. I hope to get rid of Helen's Ranch 09203