Title:
Letter from John Muir to David Douglas, 1893 Sep 17.
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:
David Douglas
Date:
1893 Sep 17
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir07_1346-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 33 x 21.5 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Cunard Royal Mail Streamship "Campania"
Rights:
Copyrighted
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to publish or exhibit them, see
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Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
Copied from a Journal of Mr. David Douglas, Edinburgh, Scotland Original in possession of Miss S. B. Douglas, 22 Drummond
Place, Edinburgh Cunard Royal Mail Steamship Campania September 17, 1893. My dear David Douglas, I am now fairly off
and awa' ower the sea from the old nest to the new - from kin to kin - from friends to friends, and as the old shores begin
to fade and I look through the many fine pictures and memories gathered this eventful summer to enrich my life, none pleases
me more than my meeting and meetings with you and your family. For your grand old-fashioned Scotch kindness I thank you and
bid you goodbye. I shall not forget it, as I am sure you know. and let me hope that you will now and then think of the lonely
mountaineer you so kindly guided through the only wilderness he ever feared. The boys will tell you how fine and Instructive
a time I had in Switzerland, and how well Sir Joseph cared for me in London. They did a thousand things for me in getting
ready to leave Edinburgh, and I trust I may have the opportunity to return some of the kindness I have received from you all.
My kindest regards to Mrs. Douglas. Farewell, John Muir. illegible