Letter from Horace Sumner Lyman on farm work at Tualatin Academy
Forest Grove
August 16th, ‘73
Dear Parents,
We are expecting a letter from you today. We did not get one yesterday or the day before that. Yesterday was quite hot 95° in the shade. It is beginning to get a little smokey.
You have not said a single word about Mt. Rainier.
We got in the oats yesterday. We got 3 loads into the farm by assiduous struggling, and I guess that there are nearly 3 more. We sold one load to Mr. Henderson. We have not yet found a purchaser for the rest of it. The garden is doing very well. I dug part of the Early [?] Potatoes several days ago, but covered them up again, as I did not feel like getting them in and Willie was gone. I hope you would not take offense at the way I wrote on the envelope, as I was a little abstracted, and got the “Mr.” written before I considered what I was doing and what might be the result of a mistake Today is Sarah’s birth-day as your daughters remember.
August 16th, ‘73
Dear Parents,
We are expecting a letter from you today. We did not get one yesterday or the day before that. Yesterday was quite hot 95° in the shade. It is beginning to get a little smokey.
You have not said a single word about Mt. Rainier.
We got in the oats yesterday. We got 3 loads into the farm by assiduous struggling, and I guess that there are nearly 3 more. We sold one load to Mr. Henderson. We have not yet found a purchaser for the rest of it. The garden is doing very well. I dug part of the Early [?] Potatoes several days ago, but covered them up again, as I did not feel like getting them in and Willie was gone. I hope you would not take offense at the way I wrote on the envelope, as I was a little abstracted, and got the “Mr.” written before I considered what I was doing and what might be the result of a mistake Today is Sarah’s birth-day as your daughters remember.
- Title
- Letter from Horace Sumner Lyman on farm work at Tualatin Academy
- Description
- Letter from Horace Sumner Lyman to his parents. He discusses farm work at Tualatin Academy and waiting for a letter from his family.
- Creator
- Lyman, Horace Sumner
- Source
- Pacific University Archives
- Date
- 1873
- Is Part Of
- Lyman Family Papers
- Format
- Letter
- Language
- English
- Identifier
- PUA_MS31_41_a
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
- Type
- Text
- Media
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Forest Grove<br/><br/>August 16th, ‘73<br/><br/>Dear Parents,<br/><br/>We are expecting a letter from you today. We did not get one yesterday or the day before that. Yesterday was quite hot 95° in the shade. It is beginning to get a little smokey. <br/><br/>You have not said a single word about Mt. Rainier.<br/><br/>We got in the oats yesterday. We got 3 loads into the farm by assiduous struggling, and I guess that there are nearly 3 more. We sold one load to Mr. Henderson. We have not yet found a purchaser for the rest of it. The garden is doing very well. I dug part of the Early [?] Potatoes several days ago, but covered them up again, as I did not feel like getting them in and Willie was gone. I hope you would not take offense at the way I wrote on the envelope, as I was a little abstracted, and got the “Mr.” written before I considered what I was doing and what might be the result of a mistake Today is Sarah’s birth-day as your daughters remember.