Letter from Myron Eells declining an invitation
Skokomish, Mason Co. [?]
May 18, 1878.
Reverend H. Lyman,
Dear Friend and Teacher
Yours of Apr. 24
I found at home on my return a few days since. I thank you very much for your kind invitation to your house during Commencement. I should be very glad to be present, I have just however returned from a two & a half weeks trip down the Sound in order to dedicate an Indian church. Should I attend the Commencement exercises I would [necessarily?] have to stay until after the Association. My family cannot well go & it seems to me that duty both to the church here & also to my family demands that I should not be absent so soon again for so long a time. Hence I am regretfully obliged to decline your kind invitation.
Our families are now all in comfortable health, & we join in kind regards to yourself and family.
Yours Very Sincerely,
M. Eells
P.S. I send you a copy of our Chinook Hymns M.E.
May 18, 1878.
Reverend H. Lyman,
Dear Friend and Teacher
Yours of Apr. 24
I found at home on my return a few days since. I thank you very much for your kind invitation to your house during Commencement. I should be very glad to be present, I have just however returned from a two & a half weeks trip down the Sound in order to dedicate an Indian church. Should I attend the Commencement exercises I would [necessarily?] have to stay until after the Association. My family cannot well go & it seems to me that duty both to the church here & also to my family demands that I should not be absent so soon again for so long a time. Hence I am regretfully obliged to decline your kind invitation.
Our families are now all in comfortable health, & we join in kind regards to yourself and family.
Yours Very Sincerely,
M. Eells
P.S. I send you a copy of our Chinook Hymns M.E.
- Title
- Letter from Myron Eells declining an invitation
- Description
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Letter from Myron Eells to Reverend Horace Lyman. He declines an invitation for him and his family to visit during the Pacific University Commencement.
Myron was the son of Congregational missionary Cushing Eells and Myra Fairbanks Eells. He was a missionary and a graduate of Pacific University. - Creator
- Eells, Myron
- Source
- Pacific University Archives
- Date
- 1878
- Is Part Of
- Lyman Family Papers
- Format
- Letter
- Language
- English
- Identifier
- PUA_MS31_22_b
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
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- Text
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https://exhibits.lib.pacificu.edu/files/original/bce929be9a2623d905b5789c5439b894.pdf -
Skokomish, Mason Co. [?]<br/>May 18, 1878.<br/>Reverend H. Lyman, <br/><br/>Dear Friend and Teacher<br/><br/>Yours of Apr. 24<br/><br/>I found at home on my return a few days since. I thank you very much for your kind invitation to your house during Commencement. I should be very glad to be present, I have just however returned from a two & a half weeks trip down the Sound in order to dedicate an Indian church. Should I attend the Commencement exercises I would [necessarily?] have to stay until after the Association. My family cannot well go & it seems to me that duty both to the church here & also to my family demands that I should not be absent so soon again for so long a time. Hence I am regretfully obliged to decline your kind invitation.<br/><br/>Our families are now all in comfortable health, & we join in kind regards to yourself and family.<br/><br/>Yours Very Sincerely, <br/><br/>M. Eells<br/><br/>P.S. I send you a copy of our Chinook Hymns M.E.