Creator
John Muir
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
[4]
& the 12 pins of Connemara they had strange adventures sometimes reduced to starvation fare & perishing cold but never a days illness.
Promising prentices for John Muir the mountaineer truly! But my dear fellow you must really give it up at your time of life & be content to leave the [illegible] Blessed wilderness & its further exploration to some body else who can afford to be killed without having to leave a widow & her bonnie bairnies behind them.
With all our united kindest love to thee & thine I am ever
Your affectionate cousing
Jas M. Hay
John Muir Esq
Martinez
California
[1]
Dec. 4. 1894
Delta Chambers
Liverpool
My dear Cousin Muir
I duly received your favour of the 14th ult yesterday along with your first Book which I handed over to my wife last evening for which we both thank you very much. She picked out about the squirrels the very first time & read it out aloud to some friends who happened to be present.
Well, now, about another matter. We have been in regular receipt of the San Francisco Bulletin & the
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[2]
Nos of Picturesque Califonia up to the 30th where they ceased. The Bulletin still continues to come
I applied at the Post Office but they could do nothing till we had inquired at the other end. On the 27th October I wrote the J De[illegible]ing Co Publishers San Francisco stating that the last two numbers of Picturesque Cali'a had never come to hand but that the Bulleting still continued to come, but have received no answer.
About a month previously I had written the San Francisco Bulletin that Mrs. Lunam at Dunbar had received a first number but never any more.
[3]
Perhaps you may be more successful in finding out a solution.
Well now, we are moderately well in both households here. My oldest boy, John & a colleague had a camping out excursion in Ireland in the month of August & Sep'r--the worst wet weather that has been there for years. They carried their own camp & have slept in a House or bed all the 5 weeks--& finished up with a months practise at the Coomb Lying in Hospital Dublin--
their excursion route was from Dublin right across the country to Galway
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1894-12-04
Source
Original letter dimensions: 18 x 22.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to John Muir, 1894 Dec 4." (1894). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 6928.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/6928
Resource Identifier
muir08_0563-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 08, Image 0563
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
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
