Creator

John Muir

Creator

John Muir

Recipient

[William Keith]

Transcription

Hotel Metropole,
London, Aug. 8, 1893.

[To Wm. Keith]

Dear Willie:

Wandering Willie, where in all this confused world of streets, cars, hotel, stations, etc., are you? I got to Liverpool July 1st by the Etruria, and feeling sure you were off to Spain gave up all hope in my infantile loneliness of finding [you]. Most of the time since then I couldn't even find myself, and yet on the whole I've had a sort of good time. I went to Edinburgh and there David Douglas, a publisher to whom I had a letter, took pity on me and looked after me. Then I sent to Dunbar and found a cousin of the old home and the school where I was thrashed. Thence back to Edinburgh, thence to Dumfries, thence to Stirling and through the Trossachs to Oban, to Leith, and thence to Norway. Had a glorious glacial and other times there. Thence back to Edinburgh and thence to Windermere, Grassmere, etc., a charming region - to Londonf-arrived here yesterday. Tomorrow I start for Switzerland. Then perhaps a little more of the north of Scotland and home. I heard from home to-day. All well. Expect to get back to Edinburgh by the end of this month, perhaps, and home by the end of October.
I hope you and Mrs. K. had a good time, but your Scotch or Swedenborgian conscience must have been sore at times. My address till the end of this month is London, Paris, and American Bank Limited. Later it will be David Douglas, 10 Oastlu Street, Edinburgh.

Hoping to meet in S. F., I am,

Yours,
J. Muir

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Location

London, [England]

Date Original

1893 Aug 8

Source

Original letter dimensions: 33 x 21.5 cm.

Resource Identifier

muir07_1246-trans.tif

File Identifier

Reel 07, Image 1246

Collection Identifier

Online finding aid for the microform version of the John Muir Correspondence http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0w1031nc

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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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

1 page

Keywords

Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters

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