Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Lunam family]
Transcription
& it is a blessed trait in sound healthy human nature that the sere yellow leaf time of age comes on the friends we have made in our long wandering ways pilgrimage as well through the world as our beloved blood relations [drape?] nearer & nearer & become dearer & dearer to all of us. for "the e'enin brings a [name?]" and we cling to them all the more fondly as one by one they approach the better landOf all my old Scotch relatives I best remember cousin Maggie Hay Lunam.Grandfather & Grandmother Gilrye & who were always so kind to us Muir childrenwhom I used to meet on the winding stone stairway of the Gilrye house when I was going to recite my lessons to grandfather & the struggle I [often?] had on getting past
Location
[Martinez, Calif.]
Circa Date
[1914]
Source
Original letter dimensions: 13.5 x 20.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Lunam family], [ca. 1914]." (1914). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 6697.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/6697
Resource Identifier
muir22_0851-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 22, Image 0851
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
