Letter from Horace Sumner Lyman on finances and seeking employment
Oakland Feb 20th 1880
Two twelfths of 1880 are nearly gone. Your letter containing the circular that darkly hinted that there might be a [?][?] piece in the great Hyde Estate (it is not the Hyde Park property, is it?) arrived. You do not state very definitely how our prospects are. I suppose that you heard of it in connection with the [?] relatives. Are they sanguine? Whom have you provided as your proxy? I suppose that you are the member of the association you gave the $10 in your own name. I have not [?] very many [?], yet [?] of the money. If any of it does come I will give you 3/4 of my share, which, if it should amount to $30 (a large estimate, I presume) would be $22 ½ for you. Though I do not expect much from it, yet I think it was [?] for you to pay the $10. There may be something in it. I suppose that it would be well to put your [?] in the hands of some wide-awake [?] man, like William [?], for instance, so that there would be no danger of losing anything that we really do have a chance of getting.
I [?] in getting the school at home, Mr. [Hoopingarner?] being preferred before me. W. is going to see if he can get the school at Dilly. I have written to one or two places in [Col(orado)?], to see if I could do anything. Though unless I could get something pretty good, my [?] hill, and running around over the country, would use up so much as to make it more beneficial to teach near home.
This letter, I suppose, will be about the last that you will receive.
Your loving son,
Horace
I’m well; quite a rain, clearing off. The [fire?] is down, [?], come as comfortably as possible.
Two twelfths of 1880 are nearly gone. Your letter containing the circular that darkly hinted that there might be a [?][?] piece in the great Hyde Estate (it is not the Hyde Park property, is it?) arrived. You do not state very definitely how our prospects are. I suppose that you heard of it in connection with the [?] relatives. Are they sanguine? Whom have you provided as your proxy? I suppose that you are the member of the association you gave the $10 in your own name. I have not [?] very many [?], yet [?] of the money. If any of it does come I will give you 3/4 of my share, which, if it should amount to $30 (a large estimate, I presume) would be $22 ½ for you. Though I do not expect much from it, yet I think it was [?] for you to pay the $10. There may be something in it. I suppose that it would be well to put your [?] in the hands of some wide-awake [?] man, like William [?], for instance, so that there would be no danger of losing anything that we really do have a chance of getting.
I [?] in getting the school at home, Mr. [Hoopingarner?] being preferred before me. W. is going to see if he can get the school at Dilly. I have written to one or two places in [Col(orado)?], to see if I could do anything. Though unless I could get something pretty good, my [?] hill, and running around over the country, would use up so much as to make it more beneficial to teach near home.
This letter, I suppose, will be about the last that you will receive.
Your loving son,
Horace
I’m well; quite a rain, clearing off. The [fire?] is down, [?], come as comfortably as possible.
- Title
- Letter from Horace Sumner Lyman on finances and seeking employment
- Description
- Letter from Horace Sumner Lyman to his father, Reverend Horace Lyman. He discusses finances, possibly from an inheritance, and seeking employment. This letter seems to have been written near the end of a visit to Oakland, California.
- Creator
- Lyman, Horace Sumner
- Source
- Pacific University Archives
- Date
- 1880
- Is Part Of
- Lyman Family Papers
- Format
- Letter
- Language
- English
- Identifier
- PUA_MS31_41_e
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
- Type
- Text
- Media
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Oakland Feb 20th 1880<br/><br/>Two twelfths of 1880 are nearly gone. Your letter containing the circular that darkly hinted that there might be a [?][?] piece in the great Hyde Estate (it is not the Hyde Park property, is it?) arrived. You do not state very definitely how our prospects are. I suppose that you heard of it in connection with the [?] relatives. Are they sanguine? Whom have you provided as your proxy? I suppose that you are the member of the association you gave the $10 in your own name. I have not [?] very many [?], yet [?] of the money. If any of it does come I will give you 3/4 of my share, which, if it should amount to $30 (a large estimate, I presume) would be $22 ½ for you. Though I do not expect much from it, yet I think it was [?] for you to pay the $10. There may be something in it. I suppose that it would be well to put your [?] in the hands of some wide-awake [?] man, like William [?], for instance, so that there would be no danger of losing anything that we really do have a chance of getting. <br/><br/>I [?] in getting the school at home, Mr. [Hoopingarner?] being preferred before me. W. is going to see if he can get the school at Dilly. I have written to one or two places in [Col(orado)?], to see if I could do anything. Though unless I could get something pretty good, my [?] hill, and running around over the country, would use up so much as to make it more beneficial to teach near home. <br/><br/>This letter, I suppose, will be about the last that you will receive. <br/><br/>Your loving son, <br/><br/>Horace<br/><br/>I’m well; quite a rain, clearing off. The [fire?] is down, [?], come as comfortably as possible.