Parker Family Letters

              Kinsman May 4th /53, Wednesday 
My Dear Brother, 
I have delayed answering your last for 
some time, because I wished to know where we would 
all be this summer, before I wrote.  I think it is decided 
now, so you may expect a long letter from Miss Hannah 
Parker, the "School marm."  I have been examined and got 
a certificate for a year, and shall probably commence 
teaching in the Laughlin district next Monday.  The 
school is very small, not exceeding fifteen or twenty schol- 
ars, and not very forward, so I think I shall succeed, Mother 
and Myra will stay at home, We are all well at present, 
and hope these few lines [underlined few. . . lines] will find you enjoying the 
same blessing. 
How many letters have you received from us?  I have 
written you five, I directed two to San Francisco, two to 
Stockton, and sent one by William Cochran, The last I 
wrote was on January 10th, since that, I have not written 
because I did not know where you were, They did not 
send me your letters, so I never read the two last you 
wrote me until I cam home, now I shall correspond 
a little more regularly, and I expect you will all improve 
very fast, you ought to at the least,- I have not been 
attending school since Jan 28th, since that, I have spent 
two weeks in Greenville and the rest of the time in Gus- 
tavus, Uncle Hezlep is quite sick, I am afraid he will not 
live many years, the rest of the family are well, they have 
all been very kind to me during the past winter, Uncle 
especially, and I shall not forget it. 
Did you know that we are the descendants of the Earl 
of Clarendon, whose daughter was a greene? and that we 
own a portion of Hyde Park in London, worth fifty 
millions of dollar, besides Bank Stock etc.? I suspect we is  [underlined suspect. . . is] 
but I will try to tell the story without the flourishes, In 
the days of the Puritans, three brothers by the name of 
Hyde, emigrated from England to America, This proper- 
ty belonged to them, and all the Hydes in America 
are their descendants.  In Feb a Hyde meeting was held 
in Boston, Mr. Lucien Jones represented the Hartford 
branch of the family, by records etc. they traced the rela- 
tionship and now they must find which was the oldest 
of the three brothers, and to his descendants the property