Letter from Horace Sumner Lyman on room and board, living in poverty, and poor health
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Letter from Horace Sumner Lyman on room and board, living in poverty, and poor health
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Letter from Horace Sumner Lyman to his sister, Mary Frances Lyman McCoy. He discusses planning expenses for room and board, living in poverty, and his poor health.
Creator
Lyman, Horace Sumner
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Lyman Family Papers
Language
English
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PUA_MS31_42_aa
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Pacific University Archives
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Letter
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He will probably leave, and I stay. If I stay I will be making about $4.50 for its two terms: expenses $1.50; clear gains $300. This plan would leave Sarah out in the cold, or rather force her to go home as she would have nothing to do here and I could not afford to pay another $150 for her expenses. I do not regain my strengths with any degree of rapidity. The, truth is, I suppose, that I can pretty well warn out when I was taken sick, and I am obliged to rest longer. My sickness pushed my resting spell a few weeks ahead.
I speak as if I could make the arrangement with [?] Grim. I do not know that I can. He was unemployed a weeks ago but my have found a job by this time, and we might not be able to agree on terms. This is really as uncertain as any of our plans. So it behooves you to fish up and assistant if one may be found.
You said in your last [?] you, [?], were going to write about something. Future days we have received nothing. We went to the telegraph office this morning to see if anything was there. We should not think it strange if you had not said you were going to write the next day. Write everything that happens without fear a favor as it may bear with importance on our doings, and in the formation of our plans blowing up again.
Sarah still improving. She feels a little discouraged over things.
It is about time for me to get the milk and fix my rice. There are no eggs in the place so I take it boiled. Oh I long to see you sister but I was stuck in the toils of poverty and cannot move just yet, I am becoming tired of being an invalid, though I feel so lazy and sleepy that I do not care to do anything now, unless to go home. I would undertake that quite willing.
You might speak to Laura first, as she would make a rather more energetic teacher, and cut a little more positive figure than Mr. Eaton. I have no idea that she will come, however. Then you could explain to Mary about Elvia taking her school at Dilley, and we all [?] arguments to induce and make the desired arrangements.
It will grind pretty heavily on us to give up this place. I have been revolving plans for slashing digging stumps up, and raising wheat in hills ect, if obliged to give up teaching of some kind.
We hatch plans fast enough, but they are a [?] brood, die as soon as the old hen comes off of the nest.
H. S. Lyman
I speak as if I could make the arrangement with [?] Grim. I do not know that I can. He was unemployed a weeks ago but my have found a job by this time, and we might not be able to agree on terms. This is really as uncertain as any of our plans. So it behooves you to fish up and assistant if one may be found.
You said in your last [?] you, [?], were going to write about something. Future days we have received nothing. We went to the telegraph office this morning to see if anything was there. We should not think it strange if you had not said you were going to write the next day. Write everything that happens without fear a favor as it may bear with importance on our doings, and in the formation of our plans blowing up again.
Sarah still improving. She feels a little discouraged over things.
It is about time for me to get the milk and fix my rice. There are no eggs in the place so I take it boiled. Oh I long to see you sister but I was stuck in the toils of poverty and cannot move just yet, I am becoming tired of being an invalid, though I feel so lazy and sleepy that I do not care to do anything now, unless to go home. I would undertake that quite willing.
You might speak to Laura first, as she would make a rather more energetic teacher, and cut a little more positive figure than Mr. Eaton. I have no idea that she will come, however. Then you could explain to Mary about Elvia taking her school at Dilley, and we all [?] arguments to induce and make the desired arrangements.
It will grind pretty heavily on us to give up this place. I have been revolving plans for slashing digging stumps up, and raising wheat in hills ect, if obliged to give up teaching of some kind.
We hatch plans fast enough, but they are a [?] brood, die as soon as the old hen comes off of the nest.
H. S. Lyman