Title:
Letter from Helen [Muir Funk] to [John Muir], 1914 Oct 2.
Creator:
Helen [Muir Funk]
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:
1914 Oct 2
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir22_0698-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 28 x 21.5 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
[Daggett, Calif. ?]
Rights:
Copyright status unknown
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Transcription:
Home, Oct. 2, 1914. Dear Papa:- I received your letter saying you were going to send my vines and so I have been on the
lookout for them. I feel sure they will do well as the ground around this yard is pretty good and there is lots of shade and
water. All the things I have planted so far are doing beautifully. If the things you are sending this time grow I may ask
for some others, if it is no trouble to you. I would like a nice wistaria root if there are any that could be dug up, a large
one would be all the better. But Ill try what you are sending now first and then send for more if they all grow. I enjoy fussing
with my vines and coaxing them to grow and they repay me beautifully for my care of them. We are all well as usual, the little
boys all growing and so comfortable and good. My girl takes the work off my hands and leaves me plenty of time for the children
and the little garden I am starting to make, now that the summer heat is over. I hold my weight of 138 lbs. tho little Buel
keeps nursing and growing, and I do feel so well. When you were cleaning up the house did you run across some children's
books in the closet in my old my room? There were two on one of the shelves in there the last time I was there, one about
the Babes in the Wood and the other a larger one of stories and verses for children. I want both these saved for my boys to
have when they are old enough to read. Somewhere in the old house there is a book on Insects that you gave me, also one full
of magnificent photographs of animals. Can I have these someday for the boys I thought Ied speak of them so you would save
them for me. I hope you keep well and that your book is going well too. Lovingly always Helen. illegible 05860