Title:
Letter from John Muir to James Hay [et al.], 1893 Sep 16.
Creator:
John Muir
Publisher:
University of the Pacific Library Holt-Atherton Special Collections. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies
of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Contributor:
James Hay [et al.]
Date:
1893 Sep 16
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir07_1341-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 33 x 21.5 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
[place unknown]
Rights:
Copyrighted
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to publish or exhibit them, see
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Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
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.