Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Margaret Hay] Lunam
Transcription
Martinez, California
October, 1, 1895
My dear cousin,
Coming down from the High Sierra, where I have been sauntering & sunning for six weeks, I found your welcome Edinburgh letter & Gilderoy both of which I was glad to get, & I thank you very much for the kind thoughts & care for me, & the trouble you took to copy the Gilderoy. I think it is very interesting, & this is the first I have seen of it. You must have enjoyed the grand old town & the fine sermons you heard, & I hope the change of air has been beneficial for your health. I remember Marie Hay quite well, I liked all the Hays & it must be a great pleasure to be so near them as to see them often Scotland is so small & so is England. One cannot separate far on such an island which is one advantage. I had a letter
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from Susan Gilroy when she was at Oban in which she mentions a trip she made with Maggie. It is a fine thing to be able to get so easily into fine wild inspiring scenery as there is in abundance in your little rugged highlands & lochs & bold wave dashed shores. I had a fine trip but not in new places, I visited some of my old haunts in the mountains back of Yosemite where first I began my studies of the forests & mountain building & sculptures, visited the giant Sequoias some of which were at least 200 feet high & 15 feet in diameter at the time that Christ walked the earth so noble & venerable are these trees!
I also made a trip through one of the grand canons [diacritic] in the old way, living on crackers & lying down by a campfire at night without blankets. & I stood the rough toil fairly well. We are all quite well here. Mother is about as usual Remember me to my friends & believe me ever yours
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[in margin: truly John Muir. Love to Maggie & Susan. When are they coming here]
Location
Martinez [Calif]
Date Original
1895 Oct 1
Source
Original letter dimensions: 27.5 x 20.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Margaret Hay] Lunam, 1895 Oct 1 ." (1895). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 3149.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/3149
Resource Identifier
muir08_1211-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 08, Image 1211
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
