Oakland, September 2nd, 1880, Dear People, I am now sitting in the old [?], [?], building, in Rich’s [home?], taking advantage of his kindness in letting me use his pen and paper. I am all right, had a very pleasant journey down. The trip was firstly quite fine down the [?][white?], calm, the great [?] etc----. The [?][?][?]. We [?] at 7 P.M. Tuesday. We [?] at the Golden Gate at 11 A.M. this Thursday morning. Yesterday we had quite a breeze on the ocean, causing quite a [?]. The ship speeded along making as much as 18 miles in an hour. Her machinery began to heat, however, and so she slowed down a little. Mr. Elliot’s brothers were on board. The older is a [?][?] fellow, with a nose large on the end, deep clear gray eyes, and a scholarly expression of face and a sort of [?][?] look. He appears to be a man of character and [?]. He a theologue in Harvard. [?][?] appears to be a good honest young man, and [?][?] to be a very pleasant and profitable traveling companion. It is rather warm here today. All things seem as they used to. The grass is dry, whereas it used to be green. [?] asked about you [?]. My mind has [?] with many a tender thought to you in the beautiful old habitation. It is beginning to be late, late twilight, the familiar form of [?][?][?], buried to the brows in [super?] haze, looms over the pale water of the bay. All is as it was. Train seems to be left soon. My star [?] eastward. What labor what pain, what [?], (or what pleasure) will rise out from that horizon I do not know. If I cling to the bare, slim, but eternally strong, shaft of the night, why—all right. [?] [Benton?] should give me a certificate, I should start from this before tomorrow, Friday, Sept. 3rd, 1880, at 5 P.M. Good, and not evil, be with you. I am your brother—in heart, as well as in [soul?], H.S.L.

Oakland, September 2nd, 1880,

Dear People,

I am now sitting in the old [?], [?], building, in Rich’s [home?], taking advantage of his kindness in letting me use his pen and paper. I am all right, had a very pleasant journey down. The trip was firstly quite fine down the [?][white?], calm, the great [?] etc----. The [?][?][?]. We [?] at 7 P.M. Tuesday. We [?] at the Golden Gate at 11 A.M. this Thursday morning. Yesterday we had quite a breeze on the ocean, causing quite a [?]. The ship speeded along making as much as 18 miles in an hour. Her machinery began to heat, however, and so she slowed down a little.
Mr. Elliot’s brothers were on board. The older is a [?][?] fellow, with a nose large on the end, deep clear gray eyes, and a scholarly expression of face and a sort of [?][?] look. He appears to be a man of character and [?]. He a theologue in Harvard. [?][?] appears to be a good honest young man, and [?][?] to be a very pleasant and profitable traveling companion. It is rather warm here today.

All things seem as they used to. The grass is dry, whereas it used to be green. [?] asked about you [?].

My mind has [?] with many a tender thought to you in the beautiful old habitation.
It is beginning to be late, late twilight, the familiar form of [?][?][?], buried to the brows in [super?] haze, looms over the pale water of the bay. All is as it was. Train seems to be left soon. My star [?] eastward. What labor what pain, what [?], (or what pleasure) will rise out from that horizon I do not know. If I cling to the bare, slim, but eternally strong, shaft of the night, why—all right. [?] [Benton?] should give me a certificate, I should start from this before tomorrow, Friday, Sept. 3rd, 1880, at 5 P.M.

Good, and not evil, be with you.

I am your brother—in heart, as well as in [soul?],

H.S.L.

Part of Letter from Horace Sumner Lyman on the weather and a boating trip