Title:
Letter from John Muir to [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1897 Oct 14.
Creator:
John Muir
Publisher:
The Huntington Library, Muir Family Papers, HM 57349-57497. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of
the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Contributor:
[Theodore P.] Lukens
Date:
1897 Oct 14
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir09_1101-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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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:
as to his mother-in-Laws death. Martinez, Oct 14, 1897. My dear Lukens. I should have written you before this but when
I returned from Alaska Mrs Strentzel was rapidly failing in two weeks she died. She was buried on the 27th of last month.
She has long been an invalid but for the last seven months she suffered so much we were all glad when the great sleep rest
came. How good she was You in part know. how small our family now seems. I hope you are well the family. Lottie must be growing
fast now learning many things. Give my love to her remember me to your wife daughter. I'm trying to write again some more
about about the forests Alaska Ever Cordially Yours John Muir