Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Louie [Strentzel Muir]
Transcription
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Portage, Wisconsin
June 28 1896.
Dear Louie.
On Friday at noon we laid our blessed mothers remains in the kind ground. In the coffin she seemed to be in calm sleep beautiful as an as an angel. The day was lovely & all the last sad rites could not have been concluded under better auspices All that was wanting was the presence of Marjorie & David which circumstances prevented.
Joanna Sarah & Annie
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are all but broken down with watching & anxiety especially Sarah.
Mother seemed to suffer scarce at all. Natural weary sleep gradually deepened into the sleep of death. She was conscious & spoke clearly to within an hour of the last. She greatly enjoyed & was comforted by my weeks visit at her bedside. We talked over all the old days & the coming changes & I am glad I was brought to her in her hour of need of loneliness. When I arrived with Mary Sarah said "God has sent you." Dan arrived the last day & his coming completed her joy. Just before the last sleep she saw her husband & threw up her arms as if to embrace him & said joyfully
[in margin: I feel dull & benumbed, otherwise well]
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Its Dawn (father) now I see you all. Its all right. Its all well. None of us expected the end so soon. The second last telegram to me at New York was "Mother is about the same."
Mothers will gives all she had the house & lot furnished etc. & about a thousand dollars worth of notes to Anne. Sarah has nothing but the $10 per month I got John Reid to send her. I think we might offer her a home with Maggie or ourselves though she might not be able to leave her children.
I hope to join the Forestry Comm. at Chicago, July 3d Love to you & my babes & Grandma Do go over & comfort Maggie
Ever your husband
John Muir
Location
Portage, Wisconsin
Date Original
1896 Jun 28
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20 x 13 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1896 Jun 28." (1896). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 789.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/789
Resource Identifier
muir09_0262-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 09, Image 0262
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 https://www.pacific.edu/university-libraries/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
