Creator
M[argaret] Hay Lunam
Recipient
[John Muir]
Transcription
[4]
I like to see all my friends, I am getting an old woman now, I have [illegible] my 80th year. I cannot expect many more years. [James May?] & family are all well, also Mrs Jeffrey our cousins:- Susan Gilroy. & Jane M[illegible] both well and busy at their school occupations Maggie joins me in much love to all our friends [illegible] [illegible].
Believe me
ever your affectionate cousin
M. Hay Lunam
[1]
Jan. 23d 1903
WESTFIELD
DUNBAR
[illegible]
My dear Cousin John
We were very pleased to have you New Year's letter with all your good wishes for the coming year, also with the enclosed money order for the poor people of Dunbar it is awfully good of you never forgetting them, and I am sure
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2]
they are all very grateful to you! We have had a very severe cold changeable winter and a great deal of sickness amongst us but I trust the spring may be better I am glad to say that Maggie is much better getting a little stronger week by week, though she has not yet venture out to take a walk I had a letter lately from Mr Murdock Edenburgh
[3]
I was very pleased to hear that you correspond with him, he sent us your paper on the Grand Canon! to read, which you sent him. We did enjoy reading it. the description was most wonderful, we are truly delighted to think you, may be in Scotland this year! and have a visit from you once more in [illegible] Dunbar
Location
Westfield, Dunbar [Scotland]
Date Original
1903 Jan 23
Source
Original letter dimensions: 18 x 22.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Lunam, Margaret Hay, "Letter from M[argaret] Hay Lunam to [John Muir], 1903 Jan 23." (1903). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2501.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2501
Resource Identifier
muir13_0092-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 13, Image 0092
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
Copyright status unknown
Copyright Statement
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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.
Pages
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
