Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Annie] Wanda [Muir]
Transcription
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& I seemed a boy again & all the long eventful years in America were forgotten while I was filled with that glorious ocean psalm.
Tell Maggie I'm going today to see Miss Jaffry the minister's daughter who went to school with us.
And tell Mama that the girl Agnes [Purvis?] that could outrun me married a minister & is now a widow living near Prestonpans. I may see her.
Goodbye dear. Give my love to Grandma & everybody Your loving father
John Muir
[1]
Dunbar Scotland
July 13. 1893
Dear Wanda,
It is about 10 o'clock in the forenoon here but no doubt you are still asleep for it is about midnight at Martinez & sometimes when it is today here it is yesterday in California on account of being on opposite sides of the round world. But ones thoughts travel fast & I seem to be in California whenever I think of you &
[in margin: Give this Scotish Bluebell to Maggie - from [Bayswell?]]
[2]
Helen. I suppose you are busy with your lessons & peaches, peaches especially. You are now a big girl almost a woman, & you must mind your lessons & get in a good [store] of the best words of the best people while your memory is retentive & then you will go through the world rich. Ask mother to give you lessons to commit to memory every day. Mostly the sayings
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[3]
of Christ in the gospels, & selections from the poets. Find the hymn of praise in Paradise lost- "These are thy glorious works Parent of Good Almighty"- & learn it well. Last evening after writing to Helen I took a walk with Maggie Lunam along the shore on the rocks where I played when a boy. The waves made a grand show breaking in sheets & sheaves of foam, & grand songs - the same old songs they sang to me in my childhood
Location
Dunbar, Scotland
Date Original
1893 Jul 13
Source
Original letter dimensions: 17.5 x 23 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Annie] Wanda [Muir], 1893 Jul 13." (1893). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 957.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/957
Resource Identifier
muir07_1202-trans.tif
File Identifier
Reel 07, Image 1202
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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, click here to view the Holt-Atherton Special Collections policies.
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
