Letter from Margaret Lyman on the weather, gloves, and missing her husband
Union Falls March 10th
My Beloved Husband
I wrote you a [f?] lines yesterday. Nothing of importance has since transpired; but I will have an envelope ready + put that draft in: if it comes this P.M.. The weather is more moderate: it has thawed a little + the voice of the crow is heard in our land. But there are indications of a storm; probably Higgins big one. Oh! How I long to hear from you! With an unutterable amount of love.
Your Margaret
March 18th [if?] that draft did not come Sat. I did not send this: but will add a few words + send it today, if the stage gets through. Higgins storm did not prove to be so terrible: some expected it would be. The wind blew some + and it snowed some but on the whole it wasn’t so bad a storm as some of its predecessors this season.
The Sabbath as you may well imagine was to me a lonely day. I felt your absence more then than on other days; but hoped that you were spending the day pleasantly. Did you have your white kid gloves for me? I found the with papers that you left near where your trunk stood + have put them in a box with the ones I wore at the same time. Perhaps it is suitable that they should stay together if the hands on which they were worn are so widely parted. I would that they too might be together. Perhaps you will think me very foolish + weak minded. I think as I have an envelope so addressed I will send this in care of Brother A. and his family please give love from me; if you rec. it there. The storm may have detained you so that you may get it there. It isn’t of much importance any way.
Your M.
My Beloved Husband
I wrote you a [f?] lines yesterday. Nothing of importance has since transpired; but I will have an envelope ready + put that draft in: if it comes this P.M.. The weather is more moderate: it has thawed a little + the voice of the crow is heard in our land. But there are indications of a storm; probably Higgins big one. Oh! How I long to hear from you! With an unutterable amount of love.
Your Margaret
March 18th [if?] that draft did not come Sat. I did not send this: but will add a few words + send it today, if the stage gets through. Higgins storm did not prove to be so terrible: some expected it would be. The wind blew some + and it snowed some but on the whole it wasn’t so bad a storm as some of its predecessors this season.
The Sabbath as you may well imagine was to me a lonely day. I felt your absence more then than on other days; but hoped that you were spending the day pleasantly. Did you have your white kid gloves for me? I found the with papers that you left near where your trunk stood + have put them in a box with the ones I wore at the same time. Perhaps it is suitable that they should stay together if the hands on which they were worn are so widely parted. I would that they too might be together. Perhaps you will think me very foolish + weak minded. I think as I have an envelope so addressed I will send this in care of Brother A. and his family please give love from me; if you rec. it there. The storm may have detained you so that you may get it there. It isn’t of much importance any way.
Your M.
- Title
- Letter from Margaret Lyman on the weather, gloves, and missing her husband
- Description
- Letter from Margaret Duncan Lyman to her husband/cousin, Horace Sumner Lyman. She discusses the weather, gloves left behind, and missing her husband.
- Creator
- Lyman, Margaret Duncan
- Source
- Pacific University Archives
- Date
- 1882
- Is Part Of
- Lyman Family Papers
- Format
- Letter
- Language
- English
- Identifier
- PUA_MS31_45_aa
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
- Type
- Text
- Media
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https://exhibits.lib.pacificu.edu/files/original/da9f34393997b8f47d60a5af0841085b.pdf -
Union Falls March 10th<br/><br/>My Beloved Husband<br/><br/>I wrote you a [f?] lines yesterday. Nothing of importance has since transpired; but I will have an envelope ready + put that draft in: if it comes this P.M.. The weather is more moderate: it has thawed a little + the voice of the crow is heard in our land. But there are indications of a storm; probably Higgins big one. Oh! How I long to hear from you! With an unutterable amount of love.<br/><br/>Your Margaret<br/><br/>March 18th [if?] that draft did not come Sat. I did not send this: but will add a few words + send it today, if the stage gets through. Higgins storm did not prove to be so terrible: some expected it would be. The wind blew some + and it snowed some but on the whole it wasn’t so bad a storm as some of its predecessors this season. <br/><br/>The Sabbath as you may well imagine was to me a lonely day. I felt your absence more then than on other days; but hoped that you were spending the day pleasantly. Did you have your white kid gloves for me? I found the with papers that you left near where your trunk stood + have put them in a box with the ones I wore at the same time. Perhaps it is suitable that they should stay together if the hands on which they were worn are so widely parted. I would that they too might be together. Perhaps you will think me very foolish + weak minded. I think as I have an envelope so addressed I will send this in care of Brother A. and his family please give love from me; if you rec. it there. The storm may have detained you so that you may get it there. It isn’t of much importance any way. <br/><br/>Your M.<br/>