Letter from Horace Sumner Lyman on Margaret, an autobiography, and traveling to Camas
Letter #2
White Salmon Nov, 15
Dear, Father,
I am afraid you will think i am neglecting you I am sorry not to have written more, if no further than to assure you of my welfare and my constant interest in and affection for you. But you know that any how i have read your letters with great satisfaction. I am very glad that you have arrived at your destination in such circumstances of comparative mercy, taking only a cold which you have now left again. I am also glad that my description of Margret was not defective or deceptive. I consider her a very noble woman. The western extremity of the Lyman tribe appears to be getting very up in the world. I am going to be an A.M. I think about next June. If nothing happens [?}If nothing happens [?]. Ella Seult Latorettse and Laura [?]. I presume will apply for a degree at the same time. So we will go off flying. I suppress that there are but few people that go to meeting there at Union Falls, few will go. Yet you can doubtless do good by preaching in your leisure if you should have a good deal of it this winter. I wish you would write your autobiography. I should like to have it in the future ages. You need not necessarily intend it for publication but, [?] for us, for the other relatives and as a book of references for historians. Your life, and especially your life in Oregon covers some of the most important history of the world. What would be most interesting for you to write would be [?] of a story of your life, telling just as it happened. It would be on interesting work for you to do and especially an interesting thing for us have now? What[?] locked at from a literacy standpoint such a work would have a good deal of vantage ground. Your life has been eventful and even romantic certainly useful? I commend it to your consideration. I went home and got Bess and the buggy. I have been out to Camas twice with her, got back from my last trip day before yesterday. I had a desperately rainy trip of it the first time but the last was pleasant decidedly it was absolutely clear all the days but one bring shape weather. The ther[momenter] dropped to about 10 [degrees] one morning. Camas in high and is now surrounded by now. Mt Adams stands majestic in perpetual ermine. We had a little rain yesterday but its now clear again.
Ah well, Farewell
Your loving son Horace
I am getting on well.
Rev H. Lyman
Union Falls
Clinton Co.
New York
White Salmon Nov, 15
Dear, Father,
I am afraid you will think i am neglecting you I am sorry not to have written more, if no further than to assure you of my welfare and my constant interest in and affection for you. But you know that any how i have read your letters with great satisfaction. I am very glad that you have arrived at your destination in such circumstances of comparative mercy, taking only a cold which you have now left again. I am also glad that my description of Margret was not defective or deceptive. I consider her a very noble woman. The western extremity of the Lyman tribe appears to be getting very up in the world. I am going to be an A.M. I think about next June. If nothing happens [?}If nothing happens [?]. Ella Seult Latorettse and Laura [?]. I presume will apply for a degree at the same time. So we will go off flying. I suppress that there are but few people that go to meeting there at Union Falls, few will go. Yet you can doubtless do good by preaching in your leisure if you should have a good deal of it this winter. I wish you would write your autobiography. I should like to have it in the future ages. You need not necessarily intend it for publication but, [?] for us, for the other relatives and as a book of references for historians. Your life, and especially your life in Oregon covers some of the most important history of the world. What would be most interesting for you to write would be [?] of a story of your life, telling just as it happened. It would be on interesting work for you to do and especially an interesting thing for us have now? What[?] locked at from a literacy standpoint such a work would have a good deal of vantage ground. Your life has been eventful and even romantic certainly useful? I commend it to your consideration. I went home and got Bess and the buggy. I have been out to Camas twice with her, got back from my last trip day before yesterday. I had a desperately rainy trip of it the first time but the last was pleasant decidedly it was absolutely clear all the days but one bring shape weather. The ther[momenter] dropped to about 10 [degrees] one morning. Camas in high and is now surrounded by now. Mt Adams stands majestic in perpetual ermine. We had a little rain yesterday but its now clear again.
Ah well, Farewell
Your loving son Horace
I am getting on well.
Rev H. Lyman
Union Falls
Clinton Co.
New York
- Title
- Letter from Horace Sumner Lyman on Margaret, an autobiography, and traveling to Camas
- Description
- Letter from Horace Sumner Lyman to his father, Reverend Horace Lyman. He discusses Margaret Duncan, requesting his father to write an autobiography, and a trip to Camas.
- Creator
- Lyman, Horace Sumner
- Source
- Pacific University Archives
- Date
- 1866-1876
- Is Part Of
- Lyman Family Papers
- Format
- Letter
- Language
- English
- Identifier
- PUA_MS31_42_t
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
- Type
- Text
- Media
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Letter #2 <br/>White Salmon Nov, 15<br/><br/>Dear, Father, <br/><br/>I am afraid you will think i am neglecting you I am sorry not to have written more, if no further than to assure you of my welfare and my constant interest in and affection for you. But you know that any how i have read your letters with great satisfaction. I am very glad that you have arrived at your destination in such circumstances of comparative mercy, taking only a cold which you have now left again. I am also glad that my description of Margret was not defective or deceptive. I consider her a very noble woman. The western extremity of the Lyman tribe appears to be getting very up in the world. I am going to be an A.M. I think about next June. If nothing happens [?}If nothing happens [?]. Ella Seult Latorettse and Laura [?]. I presume will apply for a degree at the same time. So we will go off flying. I suppress that there are but few people that go to meeting there at Union Falls, few will go. Yet you can doubtless do good by preaching in your leisure if you should have a good deal of it this winter. I wish you would write your autobiography. I should like to have it in the future ages. You need not necessarily intend it for publication but, [?] for us, for the other relatives and as a book of references for historians. Your life, and especially your life in Oregon covers some of the most important history of the world. What would be most interesting for you to write would be [?] of a story of your life, telling just as it happened. It would be on interesting work for you to do and especially an interesting thing for us have now? What[?] locked at from a literacy standpoint such a work would have a good deal of vantage ground. Your life has been eventful and even romantic certainly useful? I commend it to your consideration. I went home and got Bess and the buggy. I have been out to Camas twice with her, got back from my last trip day before yesterday. I had a desperately rainy trip of it the first time but the last was pleasant decidedly it was absolutely clear all the days but one bring shape weather. The ther[momenter] dropped to about 10 [degrees] one morning. Camas in high and is now surrounded by now. Mt Adams stands majestic in perpetual ermine. We had a little rain yesterday but its now clear again. <br/><br/>Ah well, Farewell<br/>Your loving son Horace <br/><br/>I am getting on well.<br/><br/>Rev H. Lyman<br/>Union Falls<br/>Clinton Co.<br/>New York