Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Mina Merrill
Transcription
[Original letter returned to Miss M. Merrill]
-. ¦ "Martinez, California, May31,1913.
Dear Mina Merrill:
I am more delighted with your letter than I can tell- to see your handwriting once more and know that you still love me. For through all life's wanderings you have held a warm place in my heart, and I have never ceased to thank God for giving me the blessed Merrill family as life-long friends. As to the Scotch way of bringing up children, to which you refer, I think it is often too severe or even cruel. And as I hate cruelty I called attention to it in the boyhood book while at the same time pointing out the value of sound religious training with steady work and restraint.
I'm now at work on an Alaska book, and as soon as it is off my hands I mean to continue the Autobiography from leaving the university to botanical excursions in the northern woods, around Indianapolis, and thence to Florida, Cuba and California. This will be volume Number 2.
It is now seven years since my beloved wife vanished in the land of the leal. Both of my girls are happily married and have homes and children of their own. Wanda has three lively boys, Helen has two and is living at Daggett, California. Wanda is living on the ranch in the old adobe, while I am alone in my library den in the big house on the hill where you and sister Kate found me on your memorable visit long ago.
As the shadows lengthen in Life's afternoon we cling all the more fondly to the friends of our youth. And it is with the warmest gratitude that I recall the kindness of all your family when I was lying in darkness. That Heaven may ever bless you, dear Mina, is the heart prayer of your
Affectionate friend,
John Muir
[Envelope addressed Miss Mine Merrill, 2443 Talbott, Indianapolis, Indiana].
Location
Martinez, Calif.
Date Original
1913 May 31
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Mina Merrill, 1913 May 31." (1913). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 4006.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/4006
Resource Identifier
muir21_0477-trans.tif
File Identifier
Reel 21, Image 0477
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
1 page
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
