Title:
Letter from John Muir to Mina Merril, 1902 Jan 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:
Mina Merril
Date:
1902 Jan 8
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir12_0062-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Martinez, Calif.
Rights:
Copyrighted
The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission
to publish or exhibit them, see
http://library.pacific.edu/ha/forms
Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
Original letter returned to Miss M. Merrill Martinez, California, January 8th, 1902. Dear Mina Merrill: You don't know
how glad I am to get your New Year's letter - glad and sad. I hear the kind and gentle tones of your voice in it, and see
you and your beloved sister as if I were beside you. Old days and present days are as one. For, with loved ones, new places
and people, time, distance, and geography are of non effect. I know your natural sorrow and loneliness. You are lonely, yet
not lonely. Your sister still lives with you in love, and with your other sisters and brother and friends you must be of good
cheer and go on doing whatever your hands find to do as if she were still with you in the flesh. So will your burden seem
lighter all the way in your home-going. God cheer and comfort you, my friend. Yours ever the same, John Muir Envelope
addressed Miss Mina. Merrill, 425 N. Capital Ave., Indianapolis, Indiana .02931