Creator
John Muir
Recipient
James Hay [et al.]
Transcription
[Original in possession of Mrs.Annie Hay, Farnum Lodge, Heswall,Cheshire. England]
[Original letter donated to the John Muir School, Whittier, California].
To games and Handy Hay
Cunard Royal Mail Steamship "Campania"
September 16, 1893
[illegible]
[Addreased'John, but corrected in nencil] James and Hardy Hay
and all the glorious company
about them,
young and old.
Dear cousins:
I am now fairly off and awa from the old home to the new, from friends to friends, and soon the braid sea will again roar between us, but be assured however far I go in sunny California or icy Alaska, I shall never cease to love and admire you, and I hope that now and then you will think of your lonely kinsman, whether in my bright home in the golden state or plodding after God's glorious glaciers in the stormbeaten mountains of the north.
Among all the memories that I carry away with me this eventful summer none stand out in so divine a light as the friends I have found among my own kith and kin; Hays, Mathers, Lunams, Gilroys. In particular I have enjoyed and admired the days spsnt with ths Lunams and you Hays. Happy, Godful homes; again and again while with you I repeated to myself those lines of Burns: "From scenes liks these old Scotia's grandeur springs, that make her loved at home, revered abroad."
Don't forget mo and if in this changing world you or yours need anything in it that I can give, be sure to call on
Your loving and admiring cousin
,John Muir.
Location
[place unknown]
Date Original
1893 Sep 16
Source
Original letter dimensions: 33 x 21.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to James Hay [et al.], 1893 Sep 16." (1893). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 992.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/992
Resource Identifier
muir07_1339-trans.tif
File Identifier
Reel 07, Image 1339
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
