Creator
Annie Hay
Recipient
John Muir
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[1]WestfieldDunbar. 24th Aug. 1910Dear Mr. Muir, Mr. Hay and I are visiting our dear cousins Mrs Lunam and Maggie - spending a fortnight with them. Last Sunday we were at the Parish church and Mr. [Borland?] - introduced his subject- ("The day-spring from on nigh hath visited us") by saying that he was going to read a paragraph from one of John Muirs Books Nature Studies"- "A man of whom Dunbar was justly proud". He told us that books of that nature were not as much read as they ought to be, to our loss. The quotation was from the chapter on "The Water Ouzel" in "The Mountains of California". The lesson he wanted to enforce was contained in these lines "However dark and boisterous the weather - snowing blowing, or cloudy, all the same he sings, and with never a note of sadness".And I feel when we can reach the dear little water ouzel's condition of feeling, we have attained the mastery over circumstance -, and are "free". free to live the life of the Spirit.Mr. Hay was greatly interested that on the [same?] occasion of worshipping in Dunbar Church he should hear of you and [yr.?]- work from the pulpit04861
Location
Dunbar [Scotland]
Date Original
1910 Aug 24
Source
Original letter dimensions: 26 x 20 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir19_0768-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 19, Image 0768
Copyright Status
Copyright status unknown
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Owning Institution
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.
Page Number
Page 1
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
