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Letter From [Sarah M Galloway] To Mrs. Muir [Louie Stentzel Muir], 1893 Aug 22, Sarah Muir Galloway Aug 1893

Letter From [Sarah M Galloway] To Mrs. Muir [Louie Stentzel Muir], 1893 Aug 22, Sarah Muir Galloway

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Portage, Wis. [Wisonsin] August 22 / 98. Dear Sister Louie, You have been much in my mind lately, for I have been remembering that your wandering boy has gone off again for a “stroll,” we have not heard how long he intends to be away but suppose he will take a good long one when he is about it, as mountain climbing, and scaling, is such a pleasure to him. His work and study is so highly appreciated and so well known everywhere. A lady and gentleman living here, in talking with [Celice] said that while traveling they visited the …

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Letter From Louie [Strentzel Muir] To [John Muir], 1893 Aug 22., Louie Strentzel Muir Aug 1893

Letter From Louie [Strentzel Muir] To [John Muir], 1893 Aug 22., Louie Strentzel Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, California

,August 22, 1893.

My Beloved Husband:

Your beautiful letters three from Norway came yesterday, while we were away among the green "redwoods" of Moraga Canyon, our only "summer jaunt" since the Erwins were here, and we enjoyed it exceedingly. There were but few trees over a foot through, for a lumber-mill years ago destroyed all the glorious trees that once had their home near this beautiful roadway to the sea; and the fierce fires that followed after only cleared the way, alas, for a distressingly thrifty growth of poison oak among the fresh hazel wands. 0, but it …

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Letter From [Ann G. Muir] To Dan[Iel H. Muir], 1893 Aug 17., Ann G. Muir Aug 1893

Letter From [Ann G. Muir] To Dan[Iel H. Muir], 1893 Aug 17., Ann G. Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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The boundaries of Portage are enlarged year by year so we now have quite a city and we think it is a very beautiful city The children of the Baptist Sunday School have a Pic Nick today, they have a sail on the River to a piece of land some miles from home, Anne of course is with them We are all in usual health and hope the time will come when we will meet again. I close with kindest regards to Emma and the children & yourself

Affectionately Mother

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Portage Augt. 17th 1893

Dear Danl.

Your letter …

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Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir], 1893 Aug 17., John Muir Aug 1893

Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir], 1893 Aug 17., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[Postal card addressed Mistress Helen Muir, Martinez, California, U.S.A.]

Chamonix, France,
August17, 1893.

Dear Helen:

I had a long walk to-day among rocks and trees and beautiful flowers, and all the time could see great mountains covered with ice. The sun was shining on them and they were very beautiful, and I could see many waterfalls and hear them singing wherever I went. I wish you could have been with me, but I suppose you'll come sometime when you are old enough.
Here in Mama's letter are some of the flowers I gathered.
Many little girls live high up on …

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Letter From Susan M. Gilroy To Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1893 Aug 16/17., Susan M. Gilroy Aug 1893

Letter From Susan M. Gilroy To Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1893 Aug 16/17., Susan M. Gilroy

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martigny, [Switz.],Aug. 16, 1893.

Dear Louie,

I had a glorious day at Zermatt on the Gorner Grat about 9000ft. high, close to Monte Rosa and the Gorner Glacier, the largest in this region.
Aug. 17

No sooner had I commenced to write yesterday than I was called to mount the diligence for Chamonix where I now am. I have seen so much and have been reading the majestic inscriptions of the ice here so greedily that I hardly know where to begin. I suppose I may as well leave out the science altogether and tell that when I get home. …

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Letter From John Muir To Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1893 Aug 15., John Muir Aug 1893

Letter From John Muir To Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1893 Aug 15., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Lausanne
Hotel Gibbon
Lausanne ,le Aug. 15, 1893

Dear.Louie-This is a hot but lovely calm Indian Summerish morning in a beautiful old town. I arrived late last night and am off this morning for Zermatt where I hope to be cooled and stirred beneath the shadows of the grand .Alps.
I have just been taking a short walk to a garden and terrace overlooking the town and commanding a grand view over the lovely Laueanne Geneva lake to the farms and vineyards and mountains in the hazy distance.
Zermatt
It is now about 9:30 o'clock. I had an exceedingly interesting …

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Letter From Wanda Muir To [John Muir], 1893 Aug 14., Wanda Muir Aug 1893

Letter From Wanda Muir To [John Muir], 1893 Aug 14., Wanda Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Martinez California

August. 14. 1893.

My dear Papa

You will have returned from Norway before this. I suppose you have had a delightful time and that you have seen many strange wonders while in Norway. I hope that we will soon hear from you and hear about all these things Helen is very well and the weather has been a little cooler than it has been. Grandma and Mama are pretty well. The pears and plums are ripe and we are shipping a good many of them but there is not much demand.

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Mrs Pottor died last …

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Letter From John Muir To Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1893 Aug 13., John Muir Aug 1893

Letter From John Muir To Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1893 Aug 13., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Grindelwald. Aug. 13. 1893

Dear Louie- I have been in Switzerland only a few days, & have already seen many of the grandest & most famous of the Alpine peaks - Came in by Basle - Lucerne, etc, Yesterday came here by Meiringen & Interlaken. had a charming day had good near view of the Jungfrau This is a lovely morning & the white peaks of the huge mountains here are [aglow] in [illegible] [sunshine] The [lowest] of the glaciers of Switzerland is near the hotel with [Love] [Muir]

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Letter From John Muir To Helen Muir, 1893 Aug 12., John Muir Aug 1893

Letter From John Muir To Helen Muir, 1893 Aug 12., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Lucerne, Switzerland

Aug 12. 1893.

Dear Helen- I was up a beautiful mountain yesterday. It was just covered with lovely flowers in most places, & I gathered some of them for you A good many trees grow on it - beautiful spruces but not so large as the California spruce. There are hundreds of mountains hereabouts snowy & icy on the top, green & flowery on the sides & with [trees?] about their feet & oh so many lovely lakes & water falls. With much love from loving papa J.M.

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Letter From John Muir To Wanda Muir, 1893 Aug 11, John Muir Aug 1893

Letter From John Muir To Wanda Muir, 1893 Aug 11, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Near Lucerne Aug 11 1893

Dear Wanda On top of this Swiss mountain you see this view in [ ] card. It is one of the very finest I every enjoyed hundreds of peaks and hills and mountains and glaciers with hundreds of little farms and cottages and lakes in the valleys far below clouds of every form and color lingering, marching, rising, sinking, forming, fading. Sunshine streaming through their fringes, falling in glowing silver on their domes and swelling [ ] and making lovely purple shadows in the hollows, Broad spaces of shimery silvery spangles on the Lowland lakes. …

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Letter From John Muir To [Annie] Wanda [Muir], 1893 Aug 11., John Muir Aug 1893

Letter From John Muir To [Annie] Wanda [Muir], 1893 Aug 11., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[Post card addressed Wanda Muir, Martinez, California, U.S.A.]
Near Lucerne, Aug. 11, 1893.

Dear Wanda:

On top of this Swiss mountain you see the view on this card. It is one of the very finest I ever enjoyed - hundreds of peaks and hills and mountains and glaciers with hundreds of little farms and cottages and lakes in the valleys far below, clouds of every form and color lingering, marching, rising, sinking, forming, fading. Sunshine streaming throu ;h their fringes, falling in glowing silver on their domes and swelling bosses and making lovely ourple shadows in the hollows. Broad spaces …

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Letter From John Muir To Cousins, 1893 Aug 8., John Muir Aug 1893

Letter From John Muir To Cousins, 1893 Aug 8., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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days at Liverpool & get off for home about the last week of September. Write me Care of

David Douglas Esq

10 Castle St

Edinburgh

before I get back from Switzerland letting me know when you will be in Dunbar for if you are not there I will not go back. In case you dont get back in time I hope you can tell me how I can meet you elsewhere & have Maggie go to the Ha[illegible]s with me. Ever Cordially Yours John Muir

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[letterhead]

LONDON, Aug. 8. 1893

Dear Cousins two I feel woefully lost …

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1893 Aug 8 Jm To Louie P1, John Muir Aug 1893

1893 Aug 8 Jm To Louie P1, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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With love to Grandma and [ ] I am ever yours John Muir

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(Hotel Metropole, London)

August 8, 1893

Dear Louie

Wanda has so often mentioned some trouble about your eyes and Grandmas that I feel distressed about it. At first I thought it was only some cold but the cause seems to be in something more serious since it lasts so long. Do try to take better care of your health above all don’t worry about things I feel lonesome whenever I set out on a new journey like this one to London …

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1893 Aug 8 Jm To Wm Keith P1, John Muir Aug 1893

1893 Aug 8 Jm To Wm Keith P1, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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(Hotel Metropole, London)

Aug 8 1893

Dear Willie

Wandering Willie Where in all this confused world of street cars hotels station etc are you. I got to Liverpool July 1st by the Etruria and feeling sure you were off to Spain gave up all hope in my infantile loneliness of finding. Most of the time since then I couldn’t even find myself and yet on the whole I’ve had a sort of good time. I went to Edinburgh and there David Douglas a publisher

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to whom I had a letter took pity on me and looked …

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Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir], 1893 Aug 8., John Muir Aug 1893

Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir], 1893 Aug 8., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Hotel Metropole,
London, W.C., England,
Aug. 8, 1893.

My little darling Helen:

How good it is of Tanda and Mama and Maggie and David to tell me so much about you being well and strong. I keep looking at your picture and Wanda's and show to people that I think will say that you are sweet-looking and beautiful.
I saw a lot of funny looking, good-natured babies in Norway, and they always made me think of you. I bought some things for you in Norway and left them with David Douglas to keep until I come back from Switzerland.
I …

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Letter From John Muir To [William Keith], 1893 Aug 8., John Muir Aug 1893

Letter From John Muir To [William Keith], 1893 Aug 8., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Hotel Metropole,
London, Aug. 8, 1893.

[To Wm. Keith]

Dear Willie:

Wandering Willie, where in all this confused world of streets, cars, hotel, stations, etc., are you? I got to Liverpool July 1st by the Etruria, and feeling sure you were off to Spain gave up all hope in my infantile loneliness of finding [you]. Most of the time since then I couldn't even find myself, and yet on the whole I've had a sort of good time. I went to Edinburgh and there David Douglas, a publisher to whom I had a letter, took pity on me and looked …

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Letter From John Muir To [Annie] Wanda [Muir], 1893 Aug 8., John Muir Aug 1893

Letter From John Muir To [Annie] Wanda [Muir], 1893 Aug 8., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Hotel Metropole,
London, August 8th, 1893,

My dear Wanda:

It seems a long long time since I left Hew York, and in all my long wide wanderings since then I have not received a single letter until to-day. I got here last night after dark and this morning I went to tho London, Paris, and American Bank Limited, 58 Old Broad St., London, England, and there I found your letters of June 27 and July 7, also Mama's of June 21, Maggie's of June 20 and brother Dave's of June 20, and my, wasn't I glad to find you were …

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Letter From [John Muir] To David [Gilrye Muir], 1893 Aug 8., John Muir Aug 1893

Letter From [John Muir] To David [Gilrye Muir], 1893 Aug 8., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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& cheer up Louie & grandma by teasing them & talking sheer blank nonsense & humbug. They must miss me sadly in this line of good doing & the house must be most devoutly dull duller than human nature or women nature can bear & dont forget to cheer up yourself & allow California & Providence to brighten your life - Love to Ette

Your lonely but loving brother John

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[letterhead]

LONDON, August 8th 1893

Dear brother Dave

I was glad to get your letter today for in this huge wilderness of a town I was desperately lonely. …

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Letter From John Muir To Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1893 Aug 8., John Muir Aug 1893

Letter From John Muir To Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1893 Aug 8., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Hotel Metropole,
London, August 8, 1893,

Dear Louie:

Wanda has so often mentioned some trouble about your eyes and Grandma's that I feel distressed about it. At first I thought it was only some cold, but the cause seems to be in something more serious, since it lasts so long. Do try to take better care of your health. Above all, don't worry about things. I feel lonesome whenever I set out on a new journey like this one to London or Switzerland, but I soon gain friends and feel better as soon as I can talk to people. Even …

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1893 Aug 8 Jm To Wanda P1, John Muir Aug 1893

1893 Aug 8 Jm To Wanda P1, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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(Hotel Metropole, London)

August 8, 1893

My dear Wanda

It seems a long long time since I left New York and in all my long wide wanderings since then I have not received a single letter until today. I got here last night after dark and this morning I went to the London Paris and American Bank Limited 58 Old Broad St London England and there I found your letters of June 27 and July 7 also Mamas of June 21, Maggies of June 20 brother Daves of June 20

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and my wasn’t I glad to …

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Letter From Wanda Muir To [John Muir], 1893 Aug 4., Wanda Muir Aug 1893

Letter From Wanda Muir To [John Muir], 1893 Aug 4., Wanda Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1]

Martinez California

August, 4. 1893.

My dear Papa

We have received your three beautiful letters from Oban, and Oh how very, every glad we were to get them and to see the bonny little flowers that were in them. I wish I could be with you and see all the things you tell of in your letters, it must be so delightful to be out in the rosy Heather and to feel that you are really back in your own native land once more. We are all well here, that is of course with the exception that Grandma is …

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Letter From Margaret [Muir Reid] To John Muir, 1893 Aug 4., Margaret Muir Reid Aug 1893

Letter From Margaret [Muir Reid] To John Muir, 1893 Aug 4., Margaret Muir Reid

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Cal.,
Aug. 4, 1893.

Dear Brother John;

I am here at your home spending the day with Louie and the children and Grandma. Louie has been reading to me your letters from the Highlands. I am so glad to know that you are having such a grand time. I am very much interested in all your travels, but especially in your letters from Dunbar. Oh, John, I thank you so much for writing me such a good long and exceedingly interesting letter from there. I can remember all the places in and around Dunbar as though I had been …

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Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir], 1893 Aug 1., John Muir Aug 1893

Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir], 1893 Aug 1., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

August 1 1893

My dear Helen-

Norway is out of sight & we are near Bonnie Scotland again I see the green hills & the high rocks along the shore & the white waves fringing them like pretty lace. We are near a queer old Scotch town called Aberdeen & soon we will land there, & then we will go to Leith near Edinburgh. We will get to Leith tonight & the long sail over the beautiful water will be done Everybody says we have had a lovely time in Norway

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Good morning Midge, I'm in Edinburgh now …

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Letter From John Muir To Helen & [Annie] Wanda [Muir], 1893 Jul 31., John Muir Jul 1893

Letter From John Muir To Helen & [Annie] Wanda [Muir], 1893 Jul 31., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

North of Scotland & Orkney & Shetland Steam Navigation Co.
"St. Sunniva"

Near Bergen, Norway,
July 31, 1893
8:30 P.M.

My dear sweet little Helen and Wanda:

The ship is going very fast through the beautiful blue water among a lot of islands, and is shakin so much I can hardly write. In a few minutes we will be at a queer-looking Norwegian town called Bergen and then I will go ashore ana send this letter to you. Tomorrow evening we will start back to Scotland, where we will land about Wednesday night. Then I'm going to London and Switzerland, …

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1893 July 31 Jm To Daughters P1, John Muir Jul 1893

1893 July 31 Jm To Daughters P1, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Near Bergen Norway

July 31, 1893 8:30 PM

My dear sweet little Helen & Wanda. The ship is going very fast through the beautiful blue water among a lot of island and is shaking so much I can hardly write. In a few minutes we will be at a queer looking Norwegian town called Bergen and there I will go ashore and send this letter to you. Tomorrow evening we will start back to Scotland where we will land about Wednesday night then I’m going to London and Switzerland and then

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I’m going home. I bought …

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Letter From John Muir To Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1893 Jul 29., John Muir Jul 1893

Letter From John Muir To Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1893 Jul 29., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Trondheim Norway July 29, 1893

Dear Louie-

We are now at the northmost point of the Norway trip & will probably be back in Leith next Saturday, Then I mean to go to Switzerland for a month. I have had a glorious & instructive time in Norway. Went through two grand Yosemite [illegible] & the scenery of the fiord is magnificent. I feel that the time is well spent & only regret that I can not stop & make some special

studies. I hope to be back in October - Have seen nothing of Keith - but find pleasant …

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Letter From Ella Sterling Cummins To John Muir, 1893 Jul 28., Ella Sterling Cummins Jul 1893

Letter From Ella Sterling Cummins To John Muir, 1893 Jul 28., Ella Sterling Cummins

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[in margin: Ella Sterling Cummins]

California Commission

Jackson Park Chicago Ill.

July 28th 1893.

Mr. John Muir:

Dear Sir-

I am encouraged to write you by Mr. William Keith who urges me to tell you that the "California Story of the Files" is now issued and being reviewed by papers East and West, most favorably. Your sketch and portrait therein appear - and possibly you may be interested to read of the others - as well as to add

to your library the only book of its kind. Mr. Keith was so pleased that he obtained one to read meanwhile …

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Letter From W[Anda] M[Uir] To [John Muir], 1893 Jul 25., Wanda Muir Jul 1893

Letter From W[Anda] M[Uir] To [John Muir], 1893 Jul 25., Wanda Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Martinez California

July 25. 1893.

My dear Papa

We received your two delightful letters, the one from Dunbar Scotland and also the one from Liverpool when you first landed. I am glad that you are having such a nice time it must seem strange to see the same things that you saw so many years ago and I only wish that I could be with you now to see them. Helen is very well although the weather is very warm and there are a good many mosketos, or rather a bad many mosketos. Miss Edith Blassdell is teaching

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Letter From John Muir To Helen & [Annie] Wanda [Muir], 1893 Jul [23]., John Muir Jul 1893

Letter From John Muir To Helen & [Annie] Wanda [Muir], 1893 Jul [23]., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Steamship Chevalier,
Near Oban, July [23], 1893.

Hello Helen and Wanda:

My two darling babies. I am on a steamboat sailing down through the midst of beautiful islands along the coast of Scotland on my way to Glasgow and Edinburgh. You can see the brown heather on the hills and the sheep scattered about like white dots. It is all beautiful hereabouts like the coast of Alaska, only there are very few trees. All the hills and mountains are green and brown, with grass and bushes and heather. The heather where it is thickest makes the brownish patches. The heather …

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1893 July 23 Jm To Daughters P1, John Muir Jul 1893

1893 July 23 Jm To Daughters P1, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Near Obun July 23, 1893

Hello Helen and Wanda my two darling babies. I am on a steamboat sailing down through the midst of beautiful islands along the coast of Scotland on my way to Glasgow and Edinburgh. You can see the brown heather on the hills and the sheep scatters about like white dots. It is all beautiful hereabouts like the coast of Alaska only there are very few trees all the hills and mountains are green and brown with grass and bushes and heather

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The heather where it is the thickest makes the brownish …

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