Letter from Mary S. Eaton on camping, boarding, and berry-picking
Miss S. J. Lyman
Forest Grove
Oregon
Clatskanie July 3rd '77
My Dear Friend
I received you welcome letter two weeks ago. I must beg your pardon for saying anything to grieve you for you know I never meant to do that. I wrote you a letter last week, but it was written in the evening when the folks were all talking, disturbing me somewhat thereby, and there were so many mistakes in it I would not send it; but will try and give you a letter this week. I should like so much to have been with you on your trip. I received a letter from Annie Huntington a week ago Friday. She is teaching. She thought I was at the Grove and sent the letter there and Mother sent it to me. She said she wrote to you some time ago, but had received no answer. She wanted me to ask you if you received it. Said she intended to write you again. Did Mr. Anderson go to Seattle to the association? She intended to when I was in Portland. Have you been black-berrieing this summer? I have been out several times a little while, not far away. Will you camp out and pick berries? if you do think of me I should like to be along. A lot of us talked of going out to the [?] Falls and camping one or two night to 'hunt' and fish. We were going the last of the week of the 4th but it was so wet we had to give it up. I have been listening to the gentle man of the house, telling his experience in camping out and how to cook meat and bread out in the woods, so I shall know how to do it next time. Louis is working just a little way from where I am now. He went out hunting yesterday and killed a deer. The first one for him and I guess he feels pretty proud over it. Game is pretty plenty about here first the place to camp. I am boarding this week with an uncle of Charlie Bryant and last week with his cousin. Here are a whole host of Bryants here and near this place. His Uncle [?] who lives at Marshland preaches sometimes. when he can get anyone to listen to him. Yes, and I am teaching school in this very house in which Charlie himself once preached. I wonder if his spirit haunts the house. I guess it does and that is the reason I feel so good for nothing today, (no disrespect to him intended at all) By the way I heard that C. B. was in the asylum in E. Portland Did Mary see him when she was in Eugene?
Aug. 2. I did not get this letter finished the other day but will [?] and get it ready for the mail this week which goes out tomorrow. Louis started home today and I feel desolate and a little home sick. I wish you could see some of the houses where I board. I guess they would call up rememberies of your boarding round days. I like most of the people very much though there are one or two of the families who I think are not particularly troubled with neatness. I wish you could get aquainted with my friend here. [?] I am going out with her tomorrow after school for [?] if it is not too wet. We have been having nice weather but it is some damp frost now. Goodbye for the present. Write soon please
Your loving friend
Mary S. Eaton
Forest Grove
Oregon
Clatskanie July 3rd '77
My Dear Friend
I received you welcome letter two weeks ago. I must beg your pardon for saying anything to grieve you for you know I never meant to do that. I wrote you a letter last week, but it was written in the evening when the folks were all talking, disturbing me somewhat thereby, and there were so many mistakes in it I would not send it; but will try and give you a letter this week. I should like so much to have been with you on your trip. I received a letter from Annie Huntington a week ago Friday. She is teaching. She thought I was at the Grove and sent the letter there and Mother sent it to me. She said she wrote to you some time ago, but had received no answer. She wanted me to ask you if you received it. Said she intended to write you again. Did Mr. Anderson go to Seattle to the association? She intended to when I was in Portland. Have you been black-berrieing this summer? I have been out several times a little while, not far away. Will you camp out and pick berries? if you do think of me I should like to be along. A lot of us talked of going out to the [?] Falls and camping one or two night to 'hunt' and fish. We were going the last of the week of the 4th but it was so wet we had to give it up. I have been listening to the gentle man of the house, telling his experience in camping out and how to cook meat and bread out in the woods, so I shall know how to do it next time. Louis is working just a little way from where I am now. He went out hunting yesterday and killed a deer. The first one for him and I guess he feels pretty proud over it. Game is pretty plenty about here first the place to camp. I am boarding this week with an uncle of Charlie Bryant and last week with his cousin. Here are a whole host of Bryants here and near this place. His Uncle [?] who lives at Marshland preaches sometimes. when he can get anyone to listen to him. Yes, and I am teaching school in this very house in which Charlie himself once preached. I wonder if his spirit haunts the house. I guess it does and that is the reason I feel so good for nothing today, (no disrespect to him intended at all) By the way I heard that C. B. was in the asylum in E. Portland Did Mary see him when she was in Eugene?
Aug. 2. I did not get this letter finished the other day but will [?] and get it ready for the mail this week which goes out tomorrow. Louis started home today and I feel desolate and a little home sick. I wish you could see some of the houses where I board. I guess they would call up rememberies of your boarding round days. I like most of the people very much though there are one or two of the families who I think are not particularly troubled with neatness. I wish you could get aquainted with my friend here. [?] I am going out with her tomorrow after school for [?] if it is not too wet. We have been having nice weather but it is some damp frost now. Goodbye for the present. Write soon please
Your loving friend
Mary S. Eaton
- Title
- Letter from Mary S. Eaton on camping, boarding, and berry-picking
- Description
- Letter from Mary S. Eaton to Sarah Lyman, daughter of Reverend Horace Lyman. She discusses camping, boarding, and berry-picking.
- Creator
- Eaton, Mary S.
- Source
- Pacific University Archives
- Date
- 1877
- Is Part Of
- Lyman Family Papers
- Format
- Letter
- Language
- English
- Identifier
- PUA_MS31_21_a
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- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
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- Text
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Miss S. J. Lyman<br/>Forest Grove<br/>Oregon<br/><br/>Clatskanie July 3rd '77<br/><br/>My Dear Friend<br/>I received you welcome letter two weeks ago. I must beg your pardon for saying anything to grieve you for you know I never meant to do that. I wrote you a letter last week, but it was written in the evening when the folks were all talking, disturbing me somewhat thereby, and there were so many mistakes in it I would not send it; but will try and give you a letter this week. I should like so much to have been with you on your trip. I received a letter from Annie Huntington a week ago Friday. She is teaching. She thought I was at the Grove and sent the letter there and Mother sent it to me. She said she wrote to you some time ago, but had received no answer. She wanted me to ask you if you received it. Said she intended to write you again. Did Mr. Anderson go to Seattle to the association? She intended to when I was in Portland. Have you been black-berrieing this summer? I have been out several times a little while, not far away. Will you camp out and pick berries? if you do think of me I should like to be along. A lot of us talked of going out to the [?] Falls and camping one or two night to 'hunt' and fish. We were going the last of the week of the 4th but it was so wet we had to give it up. I have been listening to the gentle man of the house, telling his experience in camping out and how to cook meat and bread out in the woods, so I shall know how to do it next time. Louis is working just a little way from where I am now. He went out hunting yesterday and killed a deer. The first one for him and I guess he feels pretty proud over it. Game is pretty plenty about here first the place to camp. I am boarding this week with an uncle of Charlie Bryant and last week with his cousin. Here are a whole host of Bryants here and near this place. His Uncle [?] who lives at Marshland preaches sometimes. when he can get anyone to listen to him. Yes, and I am teaching school in this very house in which Charlie himself once preached. I wonder if his spirit haunts the house. I guess it does and that is the reason I feel so good for nothing today, (no disrespect to him intended at all) By the way I heard that C. B. was in the asylum in E. Portland Did Mary see him when she was in Eugene?<br/><br/>Aug. 2. I did not get this letter finished the other day but will [?] and get it ready for the mail this week which goes out tomorrow. Louis started home today and I feel desolate and a little home sick. I wish you could see some of the houses where I board. I guess they would call up rememberies of your boarding round days. I like most of the people very much though there are one or two of the families who I think are not particularly troubled with neatness. I wish you could get aquainted with my friend here. [?] I am going out with her tomorrow after school for [?] if it is not too wet. We have been having nice weather but it is some damp frost now. Goodbye for the present. Write soon please<br/><br/>Your loving friend<br/>Mary S. Eaton