Creator
Susan M.Gilroy
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
[3]
little trips together & a very happy time in Edinburgh. they are so kind one can't help being happy with them. indeed all the Dunbar people are the same. Mrs Dick & the Pinkerton people & lots more. Jane Mather was here the other night. She is very well & a good [school?]
I have been reading with great interest your writings in "Picturesque California" they make me long to see the country myself. Very many of my cousins have read your "Mountains of California" with great interest & hope when you come back again to see you too. They all live in Northumberland & are Ann Gilroys children. Your mother
Oct 19 1895
[1]
Westfield
[Dunbar?]
My dear Cousin
I have been a long time in answering your last kind letter, but it has not been for want of thinking & talking about you. We knew you were off to your beloved mountains again, and I thought I'd wait until I heard you had come down among ordinary mortals. Mama [Lunam?] had your letter a few days ago & we were all glad to hear you had had a nice time & had returned home safely.
Very many thanks for your kind letter & still kinder offer of a home with you & your little girls
02043
[4]
and she were great friends & the same ages, but my Aunt has been dead some years and my cousins all married I am going to them next week for a month or two, but hope to hear from you. A letter will always find me here. This is my home house in the meantimes.
Will you give our kindest love to Mrs Muir & your Girls & with much love to you Believe me
Your Affectionate Cousin
Susan M. Gilroy
19th Dec 1895
02043
[2]
I am sure I should be happy with you all but I'm afraid I'm too old to teach anything except housekeeping or taking care of an old lady. If you know any one near you requiring such a person I might be tempted to cross the seas into your big land. I have not heard of any thing suitable yet. I was trying when in Edinburgh but so many are rushing for every opening, I must just poseess my soul in patience until the right thing does turn up. In the mean time I've had a very happy summer generally moving about between North Berwick Edinburgh & here (very wee journey you will think) Maggie & I had some
Location
Dunbar [Scotland]
Date Original
1895 Oct 19
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20 x 25 cm.
Recommended Citation
Gilroy, Susan M., "Letter from Susan M.Gilroy to John Muir, 1895 Oct 19." (1895). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 3159.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/3159
Resource Identifier
muir08_1259-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 08, Image 1259
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
