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Letter from Sarah [Muir Galloway] to [John Muir], 1910 Sep 9.
Full text linkPacific Grove, Calif.,Sept. 9, 1910.Dear brother John:Your letter was received yesterday, and I was glad to hear from you, also to tell you that I still keep gaining in strength and hope soon to be as well as usual.Joanna will likely have written telling you of our brother Dan\u27s great sorrow and loss. It is good that she happens to be there. She and the girls can take care of little Marial and make the home as confortable as possible for a time at least. Mary, also, was there for a little time.All of the folks here are well, as usual. Ette is so much better for some time now. Mrs. Westlake is also here at present. Kenneth has gone back to Los Angeles. The school would commence this week again.You will have heard how Helen is getting on. I have not heard from her yet. I must write to her soon. You were gone a long time before I left the Valley. I suppose you will be very busy with your writing as usual. I had a good visit with Wanda and her family before leaving, as well as the others of the clan. I hope you keep well. I wonder if we will see you here again some day, when you can make a longer stay than last time. I know we will all be glad.Affectionately your sister,Sarah [Muir Galloway]04874https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/32408/thumbnail.jp
Letter from Sarah Muir Galloway to John Muir, 1860 Dec
Full text linkthey all left her, he said she did not seem to mind much, he said he had just been watching her to see how she looked that night he said if John went out anywhere she looked lonesome but as soon as he came in she looked up in his face and smiled and seemed all right again I have done ample justice to that part have I not John (I thought there was [one awanting?] John, guess who) you seem to have forgot that when you wrote your [part?] to us you told us not to write till you wrote again, that is why we were so long in answering yours I don\u27t know what would give me more pleasure than scrambling with you to the top of the high ridge you spoke about. That is a first- rate plan of yours to set you up in the morning no chance for lying a little longer is there John. I saw that drawing of yours you sent to Joanne it is very well done I think Take a sketch of Pr. Du Chin if you can, and mark the house where you stay and then I can tap at the door every morning and ask for John if I choose we are all well here, write soon and may God bless you and prove the Friend that sticketh closer than Brother or sister is the prayer of your affectionate sister Sarah 00247 I hope you have received my last letter enclosed with one from Maggie and John Reidhttps://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/43320/thumbnail.jp
Letter from Sarah [Muir Galloway] to John Muir, 1882 Oct.
Full text link01080Lincoln Neb Oct / 89My Dear brother JohnI am here at Dan’s also John and Maggie, I received your letter with very kind offer, while at Crete, and Maggie and I were so taken by surprise and so rejoiced at the thought of its being possible to see you so soon that we did not exercise the forethought we should have done, in sending word to you at once, I did not know what David would think about it and so wrote to him next day, thinking there would be time to communicate with you after hearing from him, before my return ticket would be useless, I received a letter from him with full consent, so Anna started for home, leaving here last Thursday. When John Reid came here to Lincoln he enquired what the fare would be out to Cal. and found [deleted: that] the amount over whelminghttps://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/37127/thumbnail.jp
Letter from Sarah [Muir Galloway] to John Muir & L[ouie Stretzel Muir], 1883 Mar 28.
Full text link[3]winter, and Maggie and I go round wearing shawls, or keeping pretty close by the stove, but for a month past; the days have been warm and sunny, so such weather will likely pass off quickly. John has already got his oats sown and is ready to plow for corn, they will put in 160 acres. We will go up to Lincoln on Monday, and intend starting home on the following Wednesday. I shall be glad to be back for the girls are not feeling well they have been troubled a good deal with toothache and [illegible]algia. Anna’s arm was swelled to the finger ends, the last news, perhaps she will be better now. The children hare are all looking well although Anna seems somewhat care-worn, the girls have done well, and had everything looking very nicely for their Mother coming home. We often think of you all, and of the great kindness we have received at yourhttps://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/37303/thumbnail.jp
Letter from Sarah [Muir Galloway] to [John Muir], 1903 Jan 12.
Full text linkwould let you know.I will not write further just now as Mr Eastman is waiting to start for Scappoose, I had to get Anna to open my telegram this morning. I did not know what to expect, it is so short a time since we received that sad, sad one from Chicago. Annie is pretty well again but oh! so lonely.AffectionatelySarah.https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/41320/thumbnail.jp
Letter from [Sarah Muir Galloway] to John Muir, 1879 Feb 16.
Full text link[2]I dare say it never heard anything so Scotchy in all its life, that wind storm must have be [underlined: terribly grand] You must have clung to that tree like a [underlined: mice] or you would have gone the [underlined: way] of [underlined: the leaves]. I had a letter from Isabella Sanderson five or six weeks ago. she was anxious that I should write all I knew of your doings and wanderings for the last year or two, she says your friends in Indiana are anxious to hear of or from you, she refers to Mrs. Moore and family also Miss Hendries who has a most grateful remembrance of your kindness to her while in Cal John Gray and family were [3]spending some time at Mackinaw last summer where he met Miss H. and another lady who also knew you, while talking about and analyzing the flowers around them Miss H. mentioned something which she said a friend of hers a Naturalist in Cal told her. John immediately asked if his name was John Muir and was delighted to find it was, they were friends directly, Miss H. has relatives in Detroit and has since spent most of a week with John Grays folks, she was anxious that Isabella should write to me to find out all about you, I wrotehttps://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/36166/thumbnail.jp
Letter from [Sarah Muir Galloway] to [John Muir], 1884 Feb 10.
Full text link01128(4)next month. Maggie is there now she started a week ago, taking Johnny with her, she intended to stay two or three weeks. she has been feeling very [illegible] for some time and John thought the visit would do her good. Joanna says Father complained of so much weakness in his back and limbs that he lies in bed nearly all the time. You ask about the chances for selling out, I can hardly tell you, [illegible] of us [illegible] has bought a farm a f[illegible] miles from us, the other one thinks it better to sell his own property in Milwaukee first, and then is so much on the market just now, it is slow work. last week David has had bills printed and put up about the [town?] and country, whether that will help to hurry [illegible] or not, [illegible] to be sure, as [far?] as we can see it.[1]Port Hope, Wis. Feb 10th /84Dear Brother JohnYours of Jan. 14th was received gladly, and it [really impressed?] me to hear that you had thought of visiting us at this forsaken time of year, rmembering that you had planned otherwise, but I assure you, your face would have been a most welcome sight, and I sincerely hope that the next time you see an opportunity, nothing will occur to hinder you. The article you mention must I think be the one we missed in teh book you sent us and must be an interesting one. I am very sorry indeed to know that you had to [illegible] so much of your precious time searching for that [illegible]. I have wondered since, how many other things may be shared the same fate,https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/36225/thumbnail.jp
Letter from Sarah [Muir Galloway] to John Muir, 1895 Jan 9.
Full text link[2]old clock that had served us so well came down to the floor with a crash and is in such a broken up condition I have not tried to get it mended. When I feel able to go down town I will use your gift toward putting another in its place and as I take note of the hours and minutes I will often think of your kindness.We had no Christmas gathering this year, as I have been sick. indeed I have not been very well since I was so ill last spring. About a week before Christmas I was much worse and later, was confined to bed nearly a week. I am pretty well again and hope to[3]to be about as usual soon. I have been utterly unable to take up my work in the old way and have found it necessary to keep a girl, as things must go on regularly, to keep everybody comfortable.You ask me to tell you how Joanna is getting along. It proves to be as you suppose, that Walter is not very successful, we hoped that when he commenced the new business he is engaged in, that he would do bettter, but I suppose he will be better able to tell next summer. Sometimes he is able to send plenty to keep the family comfortable and then again money comes very slowly.What you sent her last came01916https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/26755/thumbnail.jp
Letter from Sarah [Muir Galloway] to [John Muir], 1909 Sep 27.
Full text link[2]enjoyed the trip. The writer of the article was one of the party, Miss L[illegible] Bethell.I am reading a book just now written by Henry Van Dyke and am enjoying it so much. It is Out of doors in the Holy Land , another I have enjoyed, The Desert , by John [illegible]. Van Dyke. There are fine descriptions in both: which show some of the wonders and beauties to be found in both countries. We get some good things in the library here, your books are there too.We are all usually well here, we have just had our first rain, enough to start the grass I think.AffectionatelySarah04594https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/31680/thumbnail.jp
Letter from Sarah [Muir Galloway] to John Muir & Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1893 Dec 15.
Full text link[4]health here. Mother has not been feeling quite so well for a while. but is better again. she has been confined to the house more than usual on account of so much snow and cold weather, and that does not agree with her. Joanna and the children are well. [Bernice?] visits us very often, she runs back, and forth. [alone?] now. With kindest good wishes for you all. I am Lovingly Sarah.Along with this letter, I send a little box for Wanda and Helen.[1]Portage, Wis.Dec. 13th/93Dear Brother and Sister,The glad Christmas time is coming near, and again I send you Christmas greetings, and pray that our heavenly father may send you his best gifts through the coming year, with plenty of good cheer to enjoy them to the utmost. I feel that one of myhttps://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/39464/thumbnail.jp
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