Creator
M[argaret] Rae Lunam
Recipient
[John Muir]
Transcription
[4]weeks ago he is the same age 87 this month. I am glad mother is able to get down stairs part of every day & is wonderfully well. I keep in doors greatly trying to hide from my "enemy". We hope your Wanda & her little ones are very well & that Helen also is very well. Mother joins me in kindest love & sincerest thanks Believe meyours affecty M Rae Lunam[1]WestfieldDunbarDecr 7th 1910Dear CousinWe received your kind letter with the enclosed P.O.O. for 100 dollars, I will cash it at once & the poor people will receive the half, it is immensely kind of you & mother & I do not know how to thank you sufficiently[in margin: We would be glad to hear from you soon again.]04909
[2]it is indeed most helpful for the winter brings many expenses amongst others the taxes which are indeed a very weariness.Mr Newton sent us "Stickeen" we are delighted to have the "wee fellow" we are charmed to hear you have written about your boyhood days in Dunbar we do[3]think you should come over & see it all again & hear the larks they begin very early in spring, we [illegible] lady from Los Angeles this autumn a Mrs Davidson You would know James Hay & his wife were seeing us this summer She wrote you from here James keeps wonderfully well for his years he wrote mother such a cheerful letter for her 87th birthday a few
Location
Dunbar [Scotland]
Date Original
1910 Dec 7
Source
Original letter dimensions: 16 x 20 cm.
Recommended Citation
Lunam, Margaret Rae, "Letter from M[argaret] Rae Lunam to [John Muir], 1910 Dec 7." (1910). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 5197.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/5197
Resource Identifier
muir19_0988-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 19, Image 0988
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
Some letters written to John Muir may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
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
