Letter from Horace Sumner Lyman on his father's health and temporary retirement
Oakland Oct 5th ’79,
Dear Father,
You have not written yet to say whether you had arrived safely at your destination. But suppose that you have.
W. writes that Payson says that Dr. Carlton has resigned so that very likely you can occupy his pulpit for a few weeks. If you do, do not overdo yourself, but take it easy.
I hope that you do not feel too tired. Do not try to show Eastern people how tough old Oregonians are. You had not told me whether you saw Sandford, and if so what he did. How does it seem at the East? I presume that you look with some feeling on the old trees that you planted when you were a boy. I should like to be there to see how you look. I would suggest that you direct a good many letters to me, and I can send them on to the rest. I sincerely hope that you will have a good healthful happy time. You surely deserve it. On some accounts I am rather glad we had such a hard [?] together at Walla Walla, it rubbed us together, pressed us closer to each other. At least, I know that I never appreciated you as much as I did then, and have done since. Willie is sometimes disposed to say that the ways of Providence are not equal, in that a man like Jim Reed, a Ben Cornelius, comes off with wealth and ease and comfort, while you who have worked harder for others than they even worked for themselves, came out poor and [?]. But if the character and not the money that a man comes out with, is the measure, and it is the measure, you have a large reward.
Well I will be in a condition to repay you some of the money and toil and care that you have spent on me, before long. It is clearer here today. Give my regards to the cousins.
Time for meeting now
Good Bye,
Your [?] son,
H. S. Lyman
Dear Father,
You have not written yet to say whether you had arrived safely at your destination. But suppose that you have.
W. writes that Payson says that Dr. Carlton has resigned so that very likely you can occupy his pulpit for a few weeks. If you do, do not overdo yourself, but take it easy.
I hope that you do not feel too tired. Do not try to show Eastern people how tough old Oregonians are. You had not told me whether you saw Sandford, and if so what he did. How does it seem at the East? I presume that you look with some feeling on the old trees that you planted when you were a boy. I should like to be there to see how you look. I would suggest that you direct a good many letters to me, and I can send them on to the rest. I sincerely hope that you will have a good healthful happy time. You surely deserve it. On some accounts I am rather glad we had such a hard [?] together at Walla Walla, it rubbed us together, pressed us closer to each other. At least, I know that I never appreciated you as much as I did then, and have done since. Willie is sometimes disposed to say that the ways of Providence are not equal, in that a man like Jim Reed, a Ben Cornelius, comes off with wealth and ease and comfort, while you who have worked harder for others than they even worked for themselves, came out poor and [?]. But if the character and not the money that a man comes out with, is the measure, and it is the measure, you have a large reward.
Well I will be in a condition to repay you some of the money and toil and care that you have spent on me, before long. It is clearer here today. Give my regards to the cousins.
Time for meeting now
Good Bye,
Your [?] son,
H. S. Lyman
- Title
- Letter from Horace Sumner Lyman on his father's health and temporary retirement
- Description
- Letter from Horace Sumner Lyman to his father, Reverend Horace Lyman. He voices his concern about his father's health and discusses Reverend Lyman's temporary retirement away from Oregon.
- Creator
- Lyman, Horace Sumner
- Source
- Pacific University Archives
- Date
- 1879
- Is Part Of
- Lyman Family Papers
- Format
- Letter
- Language
- English
- Identifier
- PUA_MS31_41_b
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
- Type
- Text
- Media
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https://exhibits.lib.pacificu.edu/files/original/ad8700e699ca309e27b5b1ced1131719.pdf -
Oakland Oct 5th ’79,<br/><br/>Dear Father, <br/><br/>You have not written yet to say whether you had arrived safely at your destination. But suppose that you have. <br/><br/>W. writes that Payson says that Dr. Carlton has resigned so that very likely you can occupy his pulpit for a few weeks. If you do, do not overdo yourself, but take it easy. <br/><br/>I hope that you do not feel too tired. Do not try to show Eastern people how tough old Oregonians are. You had not told me whether you saw Sandford, and if so what he did. How does it seem at the East? I presume that you look with some feeling on the old trees that you planted when you were a boy. I should like to be there to see how you look. I would suggest that you direct a good many letters to me, and I can send them on to the rest. I sincerely hope that you will have a good healthful happy time. You surely deserve it. On some accounts I am rather glad we had such a hard [?] together at Walla Walla, it rubbed us together, pressed us closer to each other. At least, I know that I never appreciated you as much as I did then, and have done since. Willie is sometimes disposed to say that the ways of Providence are not equal, in that a man like Jim Reed, a Ben Cornelius, comes off with wealth and ease and comfort, while you who have worked harder for others than they even worked for themselves, came out poor and [?]. But if the character and not the money that a man comes out with, is the measure, and it is the measure, you have a large reward. <br/><br/>Well I will be in a condition to repay you some of the money and toil and care that you have spent on me, before long. It is clearer here today. Give my regards to the cousins. <br/><br/>Time for meeting now<br/><br/>Good Bye,<br/><br/>Your [?] son, <br/><br/>H. S. Lyman