Title:
Letter from John Muir to Mary [Muir Hand], 1903 Mar 20.
Creator:
John Muir
Publisher:
John Muir National Historic Site. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to
publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Contributor:
Mary [Muir Hand]
Date:
1903 Mar 20
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir13_0301-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Martinez [Calif.]
Rights:
Copyrighted
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to publish or exhibit them, see
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Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
need it to give to those who do, or as Anna desired, as seems to each best. As far as my share is concerned, I don t intend,
to keep any of .it. Anyhow I hope no more will be said about the matter. It is wonderful how much unworthy ignoble feeling
a 'little money may stir up. I sent you a year's subscription to the World's Work, do you receive the magazine regularly?
I'm going to Siberia by way of Europe soon to study trees. mountains etc. With best wishes to Willis and the children, I
am ever affectionately your, brother Martinez, March 20, 1903. Dear Sister Mary:- I'm sorry you have had so much trouble
and worry about poor Anna s things. No one as far as I know thought of questioning your disposal of furniture etc. As to the
will or Memorandum as the lawyer calls it, it could not be probated and made legal without the unaminous consent of the heirs,
and since David and John Reid were positvely against it, and I thought that Sarah a widow, living with her daughter a widow
and two -little children with perhaps less means than any of us should not be left out. Nor can I think Anna would have failed
to mention her had she made a will after Mr. Eastman's death. Therefore the best way out of the difficulty as far as I could
see, was to have the Court dispose of the property in the regular way, all sharing alike. Then for those who dont