Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Willie [William Keith]
Transcription
[Page 1]
(Hotel Metropole, London)
Aug 8 1893
Dear Willie
Wandering Willie Where in all this confused world of street cars hotels station etc are you. I got to Liverpool July 1st by the Etruria and feeling sure you were off to Spain gave up all hope in my infantile loneliness of finding. Most of the time since then I couldn’t even find myself and yet on the whole I’ve had a sort of good time. I went to Edinburgh and there David Douglas a publisher
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to whom I had a letter took pity on me and looked after me. Then I went to Dunbar and found a cousin and the old home and the school where I was thrashed. Thence back to Edinburgh – then to Dumfries, then to Sterling and through the Trossacks to Oban – to Leith and thence to Norway. Had a glorious glacial and other times there. Thence back to Edinburgh and thence to Windermere Grassmere etc – a charming region. To London, arrived here yesterday. Tomorrow I start for Switzerland. Then perhaps"
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a little of the north of Scotland and home. I heard from home today. All well. Expect to get back to Edinburgh by the end of this month perhaps and home by the end of October. I hope you and Mrs. K had a good time but your Scotch or Swendenborgian cons[ ] must have been sore at times. My address til the end of this month is London Paris and American Bank Limited. Later it will be David Douglas 10 Castle St Edinburgh. Hoping to meet in S.F. I am yrs J. Muir"
Location
London [England]
Date Original
1893 Aug 8
Source
Original letter dimensions: 18 x 11 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "1893 Aug 8 JM to Wm Keith p1" (1893). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 4851.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/4851
Resource Identifier
muir00_111-let
File Identifier
MSS 301 Shone
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
3 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
