Title:
Letter from John Muir to [Margaret Hay?] Lunam, 1895 Jan 24.
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:
[Margaret Hay?] Lunam
Date:
1895 Jan 24
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir08_0764-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 27 x 20.5 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Martinez, California
Rights:
Copyrighted
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to publish or exhibit them, see
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Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
01930 Martinez, California, June 24, 1895 My dear Cousin Mrs Lunam I was very glad to get your letter. I hope ire this
that the summer weather has been kind to you eased you of your rheumatic pains. I got the paper announcing the death of the
Duchess of Roxburgh hope your church will not suffer thereby. It must be very pleasant to have Susan Gilroy with you. I wish
she were here. Tell her she has at least one steadfast friend across the big water the big continent. I fairly fell in love
with her when I first saw her in Dumfries I suppose there can be no harm in telling it now that I am so far away. I'm glad
you kindly wrote to my mother about the death of Mr. Angus Mr. Millar. Remember me to Mr. Melville, Mrs. Kelly, Jane Mather,
all my Dunbar friends. I hope you enjoyed my Glacier Bay article in the June Century Magazine. I am pegging away at other
literary work. I shall go into the Sierra Nevada Mountains soon. We are all as usual. Love to Maggie Susan, Ever affectionately
Yours John Muir.