Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Ina Coolbrith
Transcription
Martinez, June 11, 1910
Dear Ina:
I’ve been away nearly three months in Los Angeles until called home by my sister Margaret’s illness. The doctors give no hope of recovery though she may linger a long or short time. She suffered an apoplectic stroke last Saturday after a very long severe attack of Grippe, and is very feeble, sometimes fails to recognize her own daughters though she always knows me and clings to me. I must stay beside her to cheer and comfort her as best I can in the gloomy valley.
As to talk before your press club I see no hope of being able to accept the honor just now. Will probably be on the other side of the continent working on the other new books. One of them is now in Houghton Mifflin Co’s hands to be published in the fall. By the way did I send you Stickeen. It not let me know. It is fine to have lang syne recalled by your letters for I am every faithfully your friend John Muir.
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1910 Jun 11
Source
Original letter dimensions: 28 x 21 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Ina Coolbrith, 1910 Jun 11" (1910). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 4881.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/4881
Resource Identifier
muir00_179-let
File Identifier
MSS 2 M953 Coolbrith
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
