Creator

John Muir

Recipient

[Lunam family]

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& it is a blessed trait in sound healthy human nature that the sere yellow leaf time of age comes on the friends we have made in our long wandering ways pilgrimage as well through the world as our beloved blood relations [drape?] nearer & nearer & become dearer & dearer to all of us. for "the e'enin brings a [name?]" and we cling to them all the more fondly as one by one they approach the better landOf all my old Scotch relatives I best remember cousin Maggie Hay Lunam.Grandfather & Grandmother Gilrye & who were always so kind to us Muir childrenwhom I used to meet on the winding stone stairway of the Gilrye house when I was going to recite my lessons to grandfather & the struggle I [often?] had on getting past

Location

[Martinez, Calif.]

Date Original

[ca. 1914]

Source

Original letter dimensions: 13.5 x 20.5 cm.

Resource Identifier

muir22_0851-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 22, Image 0851

Copyright Statement

The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission to publish or exhibit them, see http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Fees-and-Forms-.html

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.

Copyright Holder

Muir-Hanna Trust

Copyright Date

1984

Page Number

Page 1

Keywords

John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle

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