Title:
Letter from John Muir to [William Keith], 1893 Aug 8.
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:
[William Keith]
Date:
1893 Aug 8
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir07_1247-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 33 x 21.5 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
London, [England]
Rights:
Copyrighted
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to publish or exhibit them, see
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Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
Hotel Metropole, London, Aug. 8, 1893. To Wm. Keith Dear Willie: Wandering Willie, where in all this confused world
of streets, cars, hotel, stations, etc., are you? I got to Liverpool July 1st by the Etruria, and feeling sure you were off
to Spain gave up all hope in my infantile loneliness of finding you . Most of the time since then I couldn't even find myself,
and yet on the whole I've had a sort of good time. I went to Edinburgh and there David Douglas, a publisher to whom I had
a letter, took pity on me and looked after me. Then I sent to Dunbar and found a cousin of the old home and the school where
I was thrashed. Thence back to Edinburgh, thence to Dumfries, thence to Stirling and through the Trossachs to Oban, to Leith,
and thence to Norway. Had a glorious glacial and other times there. Thence back to Edinburgh and thence to Windermere, Grassmere,
etc., a charming region - to Londonf-arrived here yesterday. Tomorrow I start for Switzerland. Then perhaps a little more
of the north of Scotland and home. I heard from home to-day. All well. Expect to get back to Edinburgh by the end of this
month, perhaps, and home by the end of October. I hope you and Mrs. K. had a good time, but your Scotch or Swedenborgian
conscience must have been sore at times. My address till the end of this month is London, Paris, and American Bank Limited.
Later it will be David Douglas, 10 Oastlu Street, Edinburgh. Hoping to meet in S. F., I am, Yours, J. Muir 707