Title:
Letter from John Muir to [Margeret Hay Lunam], 1894 Nov 30.
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:
[Margeret Hay Lunam]
Date:
1894 Nov 30
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir08_0558-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Martinez [Calif.]
Rights:
Copyrighted
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Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
Original in possession of Miss Margaret Lunam, Dunbar, Scotland Martinez, Cal. November 30, 1894. To Mrs. Margaret (Hay)
Lunam My dear Cousin: I have just received your letter of the 16th, in which you say that you have got my first book,
I sent one to Cousins Hay, also one to Susan Gilroy, one to Mrs. Kelly and one to Cousin Mather - the last two in your care.
With your letter this evening came one from Susan, but she had not yet received the book. You say you saw a review of the
book in your paper; please send me the review if you have it. it is selling well in America, and I hope may do some good.
I am now busy with another book, but I don't know yet when it will be published, and when it does see the light I have about
four other volumes to write. Whether I will live to see them all in print I don't know, and don't much care; the main thing
is one's own joy and benefit in the studies that make such books possible. I'm sorry you have not yet got Picturesque California,
but you will get it sooner or later. I continue to look back on my visit last year to old Scotland and friends, and to the
time you used to stop me on the stairs going up to Grandfather's room and demanding a kiss for toll, with pleasure and feel
myself a boy again. Susan's letter is very nice and I greatly regret that she and your Maggie, so fond of traveling, can't
come as far as our house in these days of quick travel. Too bad and sad that seas between us braid must roar and drown our
voices on either side. I hope you will enjoy reading my little book. Ever affectionately your cousin, John Muir.