Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Annie] Wanda [Muir]
Transcription
Hotel Metropole,
London, August 8th, 1893,
My dear Wanda:
It seems a long long time since I left Hew York, and in all my long wide wanderings since then I have not received a single letter until to-day. I got here last night after dark and this morning I went to tho London, Paris, and American Bank Limited, 58 Old Broad St., London, England, and there I found your letters of June 27 and July 7, also Mama's of June 21, Maggie's of June 20 and brother Dave's of June 20, and my, wasn't I glad to find you were all well after so long a silence.
I wrote to you from Norway and many times from Scotland, so I suppose you know pretty well where I have been and what I have been doing. I left Edinburgh last Saturday and went to Windermere, a lovely region in England where a great poet lived. Then oame down here. It is a grand place, this town, with far more people in it than there are in all California, Oregon, and Washington. But I am very lonesome, for I have not had time to find anybody that I know or to make new friends. I'm going; away to Switzerland tomorrow morning, and I hope you will have some more of your nice letters waiting for me. I expect to get back from Switzerland about the end of this month, and then I'll soon start for home. How glad I'll be then to be going nearer and nearer to home, instead of farther and farthor away from it. I don't like to travel, although everybody is good to me and I find so much that is beautiful.
I am very glad to hear that you are learning some good lessons every day. The precious time of youth is nov; yours, my dear, but it will soon pass away and never come back. Make haste then to fill your TpLnd with beautiful and good things While your memory is able to hold them.
I hope you and Helen got the flowers I sent you from the grand valleys of Norway. Thank you, darling, for your two fine letters. Goodnight.
Your loving papa,
JOHN MUIR
[Envelope addressed Wanda Muir, Martinez, California, U.S.A.]
705
Location
London, [England]
Date Original
1893 Aug 8
Source
Original letter dimensions: 33 x 21.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Annie] Wanda [Muir], 1893 Aug 8." (1893). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 969.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/969
Resource Identifier
muir07_1248-trans.tif
File Identifier
Reel 07, Image 1248
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
1 page
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
