Title:
Letter from John Muir to Helen [Muir], 1908 Oct 24.
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]
Date:
1908 Oct 24
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir17_0946-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions unknown.
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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:
Home Oct 24, 1908 Darling Helen, I was beginning to worry for a letter, was so glad yours today I wrote you all the news
about the property a few days ago, which you must have received ere this. Last evening one of the warehouses at the wharf
was burned, but according to the lease the loss will be on the steamer Co. You will have to reply to those sad letters announcing
good Mr Merriam's death. What a charming man he was. pity such men, gifts from God should have to grow old leave us. But must
all submit hope to meet in a still better world when all may be immortal. My How fagged I am tonight. In urgent demand for
a Hetch Hetchy article from the Century Co I locked the doors labored late early finished it in a little over a day and a
half. It's about the size of the Outlook article hard to write an entirely new one without much repeating The good muscats
were from the Reid Vineyard I must get you some more. Wanda's boy kept her Tom up all last night but is better. Kindest regards
to the Judge all the others. love my darling to thee in margin: ever thine John Muir