Letters to a Friend 



dom, be assured that by way of reply you shall 

 at least receive an honest "Thank you." 



Tell Allie that Mr. Muir thanks him for his 

 pretty flowers and would like to see him, also 

 that I have a story for him which I shall tell 

 some other time. 



Please remember me to my friends, and 

 now, hoping to receive a letter from you at 

 least semi-occasionally, I remain 



Yours with gratitude, 



JOHN MUIR. 



Address: 

 Meaford P. O., 

 County Grey, 

 Canada West. 



April 3rd, [1867.] 



You have, of course, heard of my calamity. 



The sunshine and the winds are working in 

 all the gardens of God, but / I am lost. 



I am shut in darkness. My hard, toil-tem 

 pered muscles have disappeared, and I am fee 

 ble and tremulous as an ever-sick woman. 



Please tell the Butlers that their precious 

 sympathy has reached me. 



