Creator
Charlotte [H. Kellogg]
Recipient
John Muir
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Transcription
[2]that you are going back to California (this blanket fog this morning is one of them) but wouldn't it have been fine if you could have come this way and we could all have taken a little trip to Scotland together? We should have gone to Dunbar and after that you should have been unquestioned guide.I mean unquestioned as to the places we were to go, but certainly not after we arrived there!Vernon plans to go to Aberdeen to see Professor Arthur Thompson, but I am afraid I can not go along. If I should, I should want so much to run over to Dunbar[3]to carry news of you. But as I say, it is not certain that I can go.Jean, the bonny darling, is getting on very well. She was slow in starting to walk, but now we believe it was her dramatic sense that partly held her back. She saved it till the day we should establish ourselvesin London lodgings, and then while we were sitting perhaps a little dejectedly (it was so cold those first days) in the midst of our luggage, she stood up and faltered toward a chair, her eyes big and excited, and after she achieved it she called out, "Why, Jean!" Wasn't it splendid of her to begin
Location
London
Date Original
1912 Mar 12
Source
Original letter dimensions: 18 x 22.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir20_0833-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 20, Image 0833
Copyright Status
Copyright status unknown
Copyright Statement
Some letters written to John Muir may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
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 2
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
