Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Annie Hay]
Transcription
Martinez, California,
May 17th 1894
My dear Cousin.
I was glad to get your kind letter of 27 April & to know you enjoyed reading Picturesque California. I would have sent you a better edition on heavier paper had I known how to get it through the mail.
As to putting more of myself into these sketches I never had the heart to spoil their symmetry with mire personal trials and adventures It looks too much like having to say "Here is the Lord and here is me" Still I know very well that narrative adventures etc are most read, & possibly sometime I may try my hand at something of the kind.
In the meantime my first book is now going through the press & will be published in the fall In it you will find the squirrel story & a good many other sketches you may like.
I always look back with lively pleasure to my visit with you & all the grand Group at [Birkenhed?] Give my love to all & believe me ever faithfully yours
John Muir
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Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1894-05-17
Source
Original letter dimensions: 26.5 x 20 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Annie Hay], 1894 May 17." (1894). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 6850.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/6850
Resource Identifier
muir08_0261-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 08, Image 0261
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
