Title:
Letter from John Muir to [David] Douglas, 1894 Mar 22.
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:
1894 Mar 22
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir08_0164-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 33 x 21.5 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Martinez [Calif.]
Rights:
Copyrighted
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Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
Copied from a Journal of Mr. David Douglas, Edinburgh Original in possession of Miss S. B. Douglas, Edinburgh Martinez,
California, March 22, 1894. My dear Mr. Douglas: I thank you for Dorothy's Tour of Scotland. It Is a wonderful book,
wonderful in simplicity and loving wisdom, and what a fins, near, clear light it casts on her great brother and Coleridge
and Scotland. I have been pegging away at a book, the one we spoke of, ever sines I got home, and it is nearly finished. I
have written five new chapters and recast the material you saw. If it pleases you I shall be delighted. The Century Company
is to bring it out next summer. I look back over my last summer's ramble with pleasure, and through all of it your kindness
is interwoven. My kindest regards to Mrs. Douglas and the boys. How gladly I should welcome them to my house, and to my haunts
in the grand western wilderness. That glorious John Brown night at your house seems ever more glorious as the days go by.
I am, my dear sir, Very truly yours, John Muir.