Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Margaret Hay Lunam]
Transcription
Martinez California
Dec. 9. 1898
My dear cousin,
Your letter came just as I got home from my long rambles through the eastern forests & I was delighted to hear from your & get the Dunbar news. You must have had a good rest about Edinburgh & a pleasant change It is all so beautiful there. I would have enjoyed the grand roaring storm you mention among the Dunbar rocks if it were not so far how often I would be there. Our lives are too short to see much as compared with the infinite riches God displays in this big world Nevertheless we may well be thankful for what we are allowed to see & enjoy. I'm glad to hear that Bonnie Dunbar is growing
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so fast & is so well appreciated & that the good old Kirk is so well cared for. I enclose P.O. for 20 dollars to help the poor, perhaps Mr Buchanan to whom I send my best respects & wishes for his health will help you to distribute it.
We are all about as usual. Maggie is still in delicate health but is able to be about her housework. David is prospering in his California home & I hear that the Portage folk are in their ordinary fairly good health.
I have been gone nearly 3 months studying the forests in New England & the southern states - Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Florida, etc. Was twice in Canada at Montreal & Quebec Went East bt the Great Lakes & came home by Mobile & New Orleans. Saw millions of Gods finest trees in all their glory of Autumn purple & gold.
Remember me to Mrs Kelly with whom I sympathize in her illness & present my congratulations to Mr Kelly on his [manager?] & give my love to Susan & Jan Mather & my respect to Mr [Notman?] Let me soon hear from you again, Love to Maggie
Ever affectionately Your Cousin
John
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Location
Martinez, Calif.
Date Original
1898 Dec 9
Source
Original letter dimensions: 27.5 x 21 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Margaret Hay Lunam], 1898 Dec 9." (1898). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2320.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2320
Resource Identifier
muir10_0539-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 10, Image 0539
Collection Identifier
Online finding aid for the microform version of the John Muir Correspondence http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0w1031nc
Copyright Status
Copyrighted
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
Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library. 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
Pages
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
