Letter from Agnes Kelly to John Muir, 1894 Jan 29.
B.L.C. Bank, Dunbar [Scotland], 29th Jany. 1894. Dear Mr. Muir: The receipt of your very nice letter was a great pleasure to us, We learn from it you had got safely back to your own happy home, though I wish you had said just a little more and told us how you found your wife and those very sweet chi...
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| Online Access: | https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/6813 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/muir-correspondence/article/8164/viewcontent/muir08_0087.pdf |
| Summary: | B.L.C. Bank, Dunbar [Scotland], 29th Jany. 1894. Dear Mr. Muir: The receipt of your very nice letter was a great pleasure to us, We learn from it you had got safely back to your own happy home, though I wish you had said just a little more and told us how you found your wife and those very sweet children whose photos you showed us. Prom your silence on that subject, we conclude you found all well and delighted as you to meet again. Thanks for the trouble you took about those papers regarding the death of Mr. Hepburn. Of course we would have been glad to see them, but what you say in your letter will gratify his brother, poor Sir Archibald. Poor old Sir Thomas died about the middle of Dec. I shall tell Sir Archibald of your letter when 1 see him, which may be in summer. My son and I have often talked of all the interesting things you told us of. Somehow I feel quite at home among glaciers, Alaska, and Mount Shasta, etc. The only other person I ever heard speak of Alaska was Mr. Marjoribanks, Minister of Preston Kirk, who some years ago was sent by his congregation on a trip to America as a rest to his mind. He went via New York, Frisco, Vancouver, and Alaska, and home by Canada, Pacific rail, stopping at Brandon to visit my son, a great friend of his, who is settled there. Strang enough that gentleman preached in the parish church here yesterday, and called for me in the afternoon. Knowing his interest in Alaska, 1 told him of you and a lot of what you told of your visit to it. He desired me to say to you that he would have given much to have met you and compared notes, and hopes that if you are ever within range of Preston Kirk Manse, and he there, that you will go and see him. Sir T. Hepburn was patron of his parish. Sir A. will now be his principal heritor.I have undrtaken to ask you if you could kindly let him know where he could procure views, say 1 dozen, of Alaska. He is making a collection of views of the chief places he went to when abroad. He would be willing to pay anything reasonable for them, if he ... |
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