Title:
Letter from James A. Sweany to John Muir, 1863 Mar 6
Creator:
James A. Sweany
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:
John Muir
Date:
1863 Mar 6
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir01_0500-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 25.0 x 19.5 cm
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Portage, [Wisc]
Rights:
Copyright status unknown
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Transcription:
Portage Friday evening, March 6 '63 Friend Muir, I have arrived here safe and sound after a day's rough riding, and just
in time to take the letter out of the P.O. that my father mailed for me today. I was right in my conjective that it would
have arrived there tomorrow evening. I think also that you will not be disappointed if you shall expect me from home by tomorrow
night for when I went up to your illegible to deliver the book and letter they said that they had mailed a letter for you
- I now send you the two dollars that I borrowed from you, and with them my most grateful thanks for the favor. Write to me
if you can make it convenient and pardon me for sending such horrible hand writing to you, for I assure that it is the best
that I can produce under the circumstances My hands being perfectly numb after riding all day in the cold Yours in friendship
Pas. A. Sweany? ,