Creator
Helen Wainright
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
Browns Flat
Sonora July 10th
1904
Mr Muir
Dear Sir
I was much surprised last night at receiving your butifule present, it brought to my mind some recolections of erly days, that we spend in the old town of Dunbar, in Scotland the Home of the enlightment and the brave little did we think we would at this time be denesens of this faraway land of our childhood days I have now lived in California thirty five years Married to an English man that time
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I have read in the Examiner much about you with entrest and pleasure, and am over joyed to renew old aquantance altough it is by corspondence, I am glad you have arived safley Home after your long, and I hope enjoible journey much wiser and better enformed of the Love of creation and pleas accept a thousand thanks for your nice book, hoping this is not the last corespondence we will have and if ever you or any of the Muir Family come to Sonora or near by try and come to see me I take the H Courer which keeps me posted about Dunbar and the auld
village of Belhaven Hoping to Here from you some other time
I remain your Truly
Helen Wainwright
Adress
Mrs John Wainwright
Browns Flat
Sonora
Tuolumne County
Calif
Location
Browns Flat, Sonora, [Calif.]
Date Original
1904 Jul 10
Source
Original letter dimensions: 16 x 26 cm.
Recommended Citation
Wainright, Helen, "Letter from Helen Wainright to John Muir, 1904 Jul 10." (1904). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2822.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2822
Resource Identifier
muir14_0346-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 14, Image 0346
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
