Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Mina Merril
Transcription
[Original letter returned to Miss M. Merrill]
Martinez, California,
January 8th, 1902.
Dear Mina Merrill:
You don't know how glad I am to get your New Year's letter - glad and sad. I hear the kind and gentle tones of your voice in it, and see you and your beloved sister as if I were beside you. Old days and present days are as one. For, with loved ones, new places and people, time, distance, and geography are of non effect.
I know your natural sorrow and loneliness. You are lonely, yet not lonely. Your sister still lives with you in love, and with your other sisters and brother and friends you must be of good cheer and go on doing whatever your hands find to do as if she were still with you in the flesh. So will your burden seem lighter all the way in your home-going. God cheer and comfort you, my friend.
Yours ever the same,
John Muir
[Envelope addressed Miss Mina. Merrill, 425 N. Capital Ave., Indianapolis, Indiana].02931
Location
Martinez, Calif.
Date Original
1902 Jan 8
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Mina Merril, 1902 Jan 8." (1902). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 4563.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/4563
Resource Identifier
muir12_0061-trans.tif
File Identifier
Reel 12, Image 0061
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
