Letter from Louie [Strentzel] Muir to [John Muir], 1881 Jul 24.

• Main Author: Louie Strentzel Muir
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholarly Commons 1881
• Subjects: John Muir; correspondence; letters; author; writing; naturalist; California; correspondent; mail; message; post; exchange of letters; missive; notes; epistle; Arctic; Moan; Iceberg*
• Online Access: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/12397; https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmcl/article/37331/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg

[4]4 letters by the Tiernan so one has been lost. 3 came by the Thos. Pope. Mr. Rixford sent me 25 copies each of the Bulletin for June 20 & July 13, containing your letters. I have sent them to your mother and Sisters Sarah, Joanna, Mary and Margaret and several others. I have sent to mother everything concerning you and the expedition. Saturday, a letter came from sister Anna. Mother had not heard from you since your farewell letter and I hope they will receive letters from you by the Dora, for their hearts are sorely troubled. I try to cheer and comfort them all I can. Your mother and sisters have all been good to me and baby I wrote to them Friday night01022[1]1881 Sunday, July 24, 1888.O my beloved, my husband,So many precious messages have come to me at last from the far North-land, that my heart goes singing all the day, and I am thankful, almost as if I had looked upon your face – may, not even “almost” when I think what it would be to see you now, this moment, — but yet I can be joyful for a little while, until there comes again the thought of icebergs so terrible and pitiless in power; and the moan and howl of cruel Arctic winds — Father in Heaven be merciful and lead safely my beloved through the frozen wilderness, and out from the shadow of Death— I must not think; for the sake of the little child https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/37331/thumbnail.jpg