Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Margaret Hay Lunam]
Transcription
[1]
Martinez, California
January 26, 1903
Dear Cousin: Our sister Anne, one of the twins, died at her home in Portage on the 15th of this month, of Apoplexy after a weeks illness. Only Daniel was, of all the family, able to be with her at the last. We were all surprised & shocked, for her health for the last year or two seemed to be growing better, & she had written long holiday letters as usual to us all in lively spirits. For more than a month she had been pretty closely confined to the house, partly from illness & partly from the severity of the weather. On New Years day she
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wrote a long letter to Helen & Wanda telling of a merry sleigh ride she had enjoyed & how she had been visiting her friends & bible class after the confinement to the house, etc. On the evening of the 8th she was stricken with apoplexy & Dan was telegraphed for. On the 11th she seemed better, but gradually failed. Mary may have been with her at the last, for she lives in Kearney, Nebraska, within a days distance, but we have not heard that she got notice in time.
I think poor Anne often over tasked herself in church work, in which she was very zealous.
Sarah is still with her lonely sorrowing daughter Anna in Oregon I think I wrote that her husband Hiram Eastman died suddenly about a month ago in Chicago, where
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he had gone to be treated for a cancerous growth that began to trouble him a year or more ago. She is left with two little children & I have not yet been able to find out what the bereaved family is going to do, - stay in Oregon, return to Portage, or come here.
The last we heard from Joanna she was not feeling well.
I hope you & Maggie are getting comfortably through the winter. We are all about as usual here. I sent a little money to you for the poor a month or so ago. which no doubt has reached you ere this. When we get more word of poor Anne I'll let you know. With love I am ever your cousin John Muir
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Location
Martinez, Calif.
Date Original
1903 Jan 26
Source
Original letter dimensions: 26.5 x 21 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Margaret Hay Lunam], 1903 Jan 26." (1903). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2505.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2505
Resource Identifier
muir13_0104-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 13, Image 0104
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
3 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
