PART 4B ********************************************************************************************************* 9 Subject: tryon Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 08:34:17 -0500 From: Larry Bradshaw <llbradsh@iastate.edu> To: dbrevik@IX.netcom.com here are a few more. Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii July 26th, 1844 No. 6 Dear Fanny, It is but a few days since I wrote you by the whaleship Maria Theresa but for fear of any accident that might prevent your getting it I take the opportunity to write by the whaleship Nimrod of New Bedford. My health is still mending and by the time I get home I shall be in very good health and I hope that you all may learn by me and not overdo and so break your constitutions as to be obliged to undergo so many privations and anxieties as I have since I left home in fact it seems to have been longer than the last ten years but I hope I am on the last half of my time from home. I want Dennis to be careful of his health as I very much fear he will find himself in a state of decline. You can form no conception of my anxiety about little Socrates as I fear he may not have been well and you may think strange that I did not mention him in your last letter. And finally, all have my best wishes. You need have no fears about my having the necessary comforts of life and I am making and shall make something more than my expenses. The missionaries are very kind to me and in case I were to get sick they would give me every attention and the Consuls lady is very kind indian ** me we shall have from this time until the first of December about two hundred ships here and large proportion of these from home and I shall sail in about six months from this time and probably be six months in the passage at all **** you may begin to look for me in a year from this time. I shall write often until I sail as I shall have opportunity every week. I made about $40 last two *****$20 if it clears at least and when a ***** ****** are admitted into the hospital I call as well. Give my respects to all inquiring friends. Mrs. Ives and family especially Mr. Martins all friends S.H.Tryon August 29, 1844 Dear Franny, You will see that the *** **** if this ***** *** ***** some time since and so was a great mistake that it did not go when expected. I have writing **** **will at present *****you may look soon for another. You will be kept advised frequently until I get home and the only reason that I do not come home now is that I find to go on the American coast in the winter and the difficulty of getting home from New York in the winter and the spring might bring on a cough again. Do as you please with the farm as I shall not be home soon enough to attend to it. S.H.Tryon Lahaina August 23rd 1844 No 6b Dear Franny, This day completes a year since I left home and when I left my intentions were to have been back before or about this time, and it would be a source of great pleasure to me could I at this time be with my friends, not but where I am I have friends as kind as could be expected but after all they are not the same as at home.. My health is still improving and undoubtably will continue to do so until I arrive. ****** *******. I live within ten steps of the sea and I am just now out of it and I make it a rule to bathe in the sea every day. It is now about one month since I wrote you by the Maria Theresa and as the ship by which I am send this is a good sailer you may receive this nearly as soon as you do the last letter that I wroteand you may look soon after the receipt of this for another as I shall write very often and not a great deal at a time. As I suppose you will expect me to say something about the time at which you may begin to look for me I will say about the first of August next which will make it two years; which will seem longer to me than all the balance of my lifetime; the four months that I have been at Lahina seem longer than a year at home. I (eass) compare it to nothing but sickness at home and you know very well how discontented I am when unwell and you may ask why does he not come when so many opportunities are presenting; the answer is that firstly the American coast in the winter is very dangerous season of the year in which we should arrive and it would also be very cold which would operated unfavorably upon a person which had been residing so long directly under the sun. Secondly it would be a very bad season to do the Cape Horn and thirdly it woud be hazardous for me to attemopt to travel through the United States in dead of winter by stage; fourthly it would be very expensive for me to remain down east until spring as I should need so many clothes and in fact I could not think of remaining so long in the limits of the United States without seeing you all and you may rest assured that when my foot is once more place on American soil the quickest way will be ********** to in order to go home. Now after this explanation I trust you with wait as patiently as possible for my arrival. I have written one letter since the on I sent by the Maria Theresa and was disappointed by the ships sailing to early in the morning for me and accordingly you have the latest news as the ship Archer by which this will be sent will sail in the morning. If an opportunity presents I will write over land and you might get it sooner than this. As to business at home I know not what to say but do in accordance with your judgement should James be on the farm yet and wish to remain give it to him as I shall not be there in time to make any arrangements for next season. You need not give yourselves any uneasiness in relation to or about me for I can get along respectfully any place almost; and should I get unwell the best of attendance and attention would be rendered. Mrs. Calkins is a very kind woman and the mission **** would give me every attention. Last evening we had a temperance meetingand a large amount tempered ** documments and very appropriate (bass) were received as a donation to the society here from the New York State Temperance Society. Now comes the subject upon which I feel almost at a loss to say anything for fear bad consequences as from **** ill health with some of you and should little Socrates be well spare no (having) to keep him so; you must now think that I forgot him in my last as a reason for not mentioning him; but then as now I did not know what to say. allow me to say that I intend my letters for all consequently names are unnecessary and I will conclude by saying that you all have my best wishes relatives and other friends, and you will say so to all. Frances Tryon S.H.Tryon via ship Archer Honalulu, Island of Oahu September 2, 1844 No. 7 Dear Frances, As opportunity now presents to send a letter overland by the way of Mexico I improve and I think that in all probability you will receive it soon than three or four of an earlier date than this which have gone by way of Cape Horn. As when I have written before not knowing your circumstances, am at a loss what to write but will commence by saying that my health is very good, much better than I ever expected when I left home and as yet I have never regreted that I did leave as I really believe that had I rmained at home or in any cold climate the winter would hae been too much for my broken constitution to have withstood. As you see from the date I am now at Honalulu and have been for a week but on the morrow I sail for Lahaina which is about 90 miles. I am to go with the King in his vessel of war. As to the time when I may arrive at home is very uncertain there is a Scotman here now in command of a merchantinan of 400 tons that will sail about the 20th of this month for Scotland by the way of Mazatland, Mexico and Valparaiso, Chile he wishes me to go with him and I may as it all events I shall get home some time next summer if nothing should take place I should leave immediately was it not for the cold weather in the spring. I want the benefit of a warm climate but as I told you before you shall hear from me by every good opportunity and I trust that you all will rest as content as possible as I shall be with you as soon as possible under the circumstances. Tomorrow I shall put a letter on the John Gay bound around the (Cape) Horn and when your receive this in about two months you will receive the others I think that at this time I can get away from this place with about $600 so that you can see that I am not altogether blind to my own interest. I do intend to bring home as much money as I took with me and at this time I have $2.50 of the same money that I had when I left Vermont the same sovereigns and I shall bring them back unless something should happen more than I now know of. I have tried to be very prudent and have made something but my expenses have been large necessarily. Now is to little Socarates. I know not what to say but sincerely hope that he is well and all of my friends. As to the business all that I can say is that I wish you to act for the best give the farn to James in case he wants it and on such terms as he and you can agree. I have only one thing more to say and that is that you see that Charlie has his time and plenty of oats as I shall want the use of him on my return. Give my respects to all friends, S.H.Tryon Honalulu Oahu September 3 rd, 1844 No. 8 Dear Frances, As I stated in my letter of yesterday that I was in Honalulu and that you would receive a letter by the way of Cape Horn in about 2 months from the time that you will receive the one that I sendt by the way of Mexico it is not necessary for me to write much as it would be merely aa repetitian and as I expect you would not care much about news as old as that would be I shall write but a few lines and my only object in writing theis is to improve every opportounity that you may get some of them. At 4 o'clock of this day I shall sail as I stated in my last by way of Mexico for Lahaina but cannot tell you when I shall sail for home but it will be some time between this and the first of January. You will know when you receive all my letters by the numbers. Now father you must not think that I am reckless by staying from home so long and my thought is that I was determined if any advantage was to be had by traveling by sea and a residence in a warm climated to have it and you very well now that I was fast on the decline when I left and should in all prbability not been able to winter more than once at home and I must say that I am much better than I ever expected to be and when you see me you will admit that I should have done right. You must allow me to advise you all to use every precaution to preserve your health and all the remainder of the family and I hope to see you all well. I hope that you will see that my family wants for nothing to render them comfortable. It is not necessary for me to call names as you all have my best wishes. Yours, S.H. Tryon