Letter from Margaret Duncan on letters from her fiance, weather, and family health
Title
Letter from Margaret Duncan on letters from her fiance, weather, and family health
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Letter from Margaret Duncan Lyman to her future husband/cousin, Reverend Horace Sumner Lyman. She discusses her fondness for letters from her fiance, the weather, and family health.
Creator
Lyman, Margaret Duncan
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Lyman Family Papers
Language
English
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PUA_MS31_45_m
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Pacific University Archives
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Letter
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Text
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Union Falls, N.Y. May 13th/ 82
Rev. H. Lyman,
Forest Grove, Oregon
My Best Beloved,
Yours of 17th ult. reached me last Wed. (the 10th) & I need not say was very welcome
You have probably, ere this, rec'd some of my numerous letters (or scrawls; I might more properly call them) which I have sent to Forest Grove. You spoke in your last of needing the stimulus of a letter from me, to write a good letter to me: but I assured, I consider all your letters good: & trust you will never omit writing on that account. Your assurance, that you more & more think of me, is pleasant to me. It is my earnest desire that your hopes in regard to me may not be disappointed; though I so often fear the contrary.
I would be, all that you desire. God grant that I may be! May 17th could not finish this in time for Saturday's mail: and will make another attempt.
We are having a very backward spring. There has been no very warm weather yet: most of the time it has been quite cool. Yet the promise 'While the earth remaineth, seed time & harvest' etc. etc. 'shall not cease,' still holds good. It is pleasant to feel that One of infinite wisdom who, unlike Vernor, makes no mistakes in calculations, orders all arrangements about the weather. Though we will trust and not be afraid.' You will, doubtless, be glad to be at home again, after so long an absence.
I suppose I have very vague ideas of the grandness of the scenery on the Columbia: though I have seen some views of it. Do you set out young trees on the land which you are improving? or cultivate the soil where trees are already growing?
My questions will of course, expose my ignorance to you?
Your message to Mother, a kind & affectionate remembrance to her I delivered to her & she requested me to transmit a similar one to you.
Uncle W. Denison has been in very poor health for some time: but was somewhat better, when we last heard.
But I must close, or this will not go by next mail.
Very affectionately,
Your Margaret.
Rev. H. Lyman,
Forest Grove, Oregon
My Best Beloved,
Yours of 17th ult. reached me last Wed. (the 10th) & I need not say was very welcome
You have probably, ere this, rec'd some of my numerous letters (or scrawls; I might more properly call them) which I have sent to Forest Grove. You spoke in your last of needing the stimulus of a letter from me, to write a good letter to me: but I assured, I consider all your letters good: & trust you will never omit writing on that account. Your assurance, that you more & more think of me, is pleasant to me. It is my earnest desire that your hopes in regard to me may not be disappointed; though I so often fear the contrary.
I would be, all that you desire. God grant that I may be! May 17th could not finish this in time for Saturday's mail: and will make another attempt.
We are having a very backward spring. There has been no very warm weather yet: most of the time it has been quite cool. Yet the promise 'While the earth remaineth, seed time & harvest' etc. etc. 'shall not cease,' still holds good. It is pleasant to feel that One of infinite wisdom who, unlike Vernor, makes no mistakes in calculations, orders all arrangements about the weather. Though we will trust and not be afraid.' You will, doubtless, be glad to be at home again, after so long an absence.
I suppose I have very vague ideas of the grandness of the scenery on the Columbia: though I have seen some views of it. Do you set out young trees on the land which you are improving? or cultivate the soil where trees are already growing?
My questions will of course, expose my ignorance to you?
Your message to Mother, a kind & affectionate remembrance to her I delivered to her & she requested me to transmit a similar one to you.
Uncle W. Denison has been in very poor health for some time: but was somewhat better, when we last heard.
But I must close, or this will not go by next mail.
Very affectionately,
Your Margaret.