Title:
Letter from John Muir to Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1896 Jun 28.
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:
Louie [Strentzel Muir]
Date:
1896 Jun 28
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir09_0263-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 20 x 13 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Portage, Wisconsin
Rights:
Copyrighted
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Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
02113 Portage, Wisconsin June 28 1896. Dear Louie. On Friday at noon we laid our blessed mothers remains in the kind
ground. In the coffin she seemed to be in calm sleep beautiful as an as an angel. The day was lovely all the last sad rites
could not have been concluded under better auspices All that was wanting was the presence of Marjorie David which circumstances
prevented. Joanna Sarah Annie 02113 2 are all but broken down with watching anxiety especially Sarah. Mother seemed
to suffer scarce at all. Natural weary sleep gradually deepened into the sleep of death. She was conscious spoke clearly to
within an hour of the last. She greatly enjoyed was comforted by my weeks visit at her bedside. We talked over all the old
days the coming changes I am glad I was brought to her in her hour of need of loneliness. When I arrived with Mary Sarah said
God has sent you. Dan arrived the last day his coming completed her joy. Just before the last sleep she saw her husband threw
up her arms as if to embrace him said joyfully in margin: I feel dull benumbed, otherwise well 02113 Its Dawn (father)
now I see you all. Its all right. Its all well. None of us expected the end so soon. The second last telegram to me at New
York was Mother is about the same. Mothers will gives all she had the house lot furnished etc. about a thousand dollars worth
of notes to Anne. Sarah has nothing but the 10 per month I got John Reid to send her. I think we might offer her a home with
Maggie or ourselves though she might not be able to leave her children. I hope to join the Forestry Comm. at Chicago, July
3d Love to you my babes Grandma Do go over comfort Maggie Ever your husband John Muir