Creator
M[argaret] Hay Lunam
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
[4]
also Jane Mather, she teaches music, remember me very [illegible] to Mrs Reid and Mrs Galloway, also your brothers. I often sit at the fireside and think of the days when we were all young, and you all coming [over?] to see grandfather and Gre[illegible]! I have not an old acquaintance living in [Dunbar?] now! but I have many home comforts, and Maggie looks well to my every comfort she sends her warmest love to you. We often speaks about you, ever your loving [cousin?]
M Hay Lunam
[1]
do write soon
Westfield,
Dunbar.
November Tuesday 8th 1904
My dear Cousin John
We were both of us truly delighted on Saturday when Mr Murdock came and spent a few hours with us and told us all about your lovely home and the great kindness you had all shown him, and the glorious sunshine in Martinez California
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[2]
Maggie and I both thank you very much for the Photo you sent us of your two Ba[illegible]ns, they are [young?] ladies [now &?] we are pleased to [have?] your [house?] with you all standing at the door we thank Mrs Muir for sending the beautiful piece of sowed work done by the [illegible]es in Ph[illegible]ens Island I could not believe they could sew such beautiful work, they beat Scotland at that sort of work
[3]
We are both very well after our long holiday in Berwickshire, we had our house let for two months, when are you coming to Dunbar again you should bring your girls to see Dunbar and [illegible] I would like very much to see you again I am 81 years now, James May, your cousin, is also 81. [illegible] month. Susan Gelroy is well always visiting amongst her friends she often asks for you,
Location
Dunbar [Scotland]
Date Original
1904 Nov 08
Source
Original letter dimensions: 17.5 x 22.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Lunam, Margaret Hay, "Letter from M[argaret] Hay Lunam to John Muir, 1904 Nov 8." (1904). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2902.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2902
Resource Identifier
muir14_0652-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 14, Image 0652
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
