Title:
Letter from John Muir to [Marion R.] Parsons, [ca. 1914 May 23].
Creator:
John Muir
Publisher:
The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of
the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Contributor:
[Marion R.] Parsons
Date:
[ca. 1914 May 23]
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir22_0324-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
[place unknown]
Rights:
Copyrighted
The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
http://library.pacific.edu/ha/forms
Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
ca. May 23, 1914 Dear Mrs Parsons, I am sure you must feel how sincerely I sympathize with you. I little thought when last
I wrote that the end of your husband's blessed life was so nigh. Mr Colby's letter alarmed me, but I refused to believe that
one so full of the strength of the hills was beyond healing. I wish I could help to comfort you in your sore loneliness, though
the warmest heart-words must at first be unavailing. From this good world he knew so well he has gone to a still better world
eternal in the heavens. His cheery inspiring presence will be sadly missed by every good mountaineer friend around the cap
fires, but his memory will be held dear and all will continue to rejoice together in the great good enduring work he accomplished.
God be with you dear friend to cheer and sustain you in this trial. So devoutly prays John Muir