Chicago June 4th 1868  Dear Cousin.       I received your letter in answer to the Telegram, yesterday, and to day I am waiting for an opportunity to go down Lake Michigan to Grand Traverse. I expect the Boat Allegany will leave tomorrow at three o   clock. I shall probably return on Thursday next on the same Boat to this place, and shall take the next Train east, but shall stop off long enough to go to Lansing in Michigan, and early the follow-ing week I shall proceed to Buffa- lo, and thence to Candor as soon as possible, where I have to see you as early as the 18th of the present month. I will reach there sooner if I possibly can. You will have     top written sideways  If I can be of any service to you or family by seeing your daughter at Jones will please inform me. Write freely, and you shall have prompt replies Truly yours Gustavus Hines  
         learned ere this that brother Todd of the Wyoming Conference has received a Transfer to the Oregon Conference, and contemplated accompanying us. He will proceed to New York soon, and will make inquiries of Capt. Keeler at 98 Liberty Street, in regard to the chances for direct shipment to Portland. If he has (that is Keeler) perfected his arrangements for direct shipment, as he informed me he would probably be able to do, it might be something of a saving to send furniture in that way. I think however with my experience in such matters, if I were now moving to Oregon, I should not ship heavy furniture of any kind, if I could possibly sell what I had without a great sacrifice. I think you had better sell for half what  
         your furniture is worth,  xxx  Chairs and all, and purchase again either at San Francisco or Oregon, than to pay the freight on that kind of property. You can get everything in the line of furniture that you can desire, on reaching your destined home. Pack up all your books, and as many others as you can get for the University Library, and as much crockery as you can put in among your beds, bedding and clothing that you will not need on the way, not forgetting to put those carpets in if they are not too much  xxx ; as they will doubtless come in play when you reach Oregon, and besides this carpet in that country bear a very high price. With these suggestions I think you will  
         proceed safely until I come down. I propose to go down to New York in advance some ten days and make all necessary arrangements in regard to shipping freight, passage sc. I informed you in my last that Bishop Scott was to be our Bishop. He is much pleased with the idea of your going out to take charge of the University, as is also Bishop Clark Bishop Scott will have to leave New York as early as the 5th of July, so as to reach Salem to open the Conference on the 13th of August. For various reasons I am getting to be quite anxious to be at Salem at the Conference. I think all our interests would be promoted  there?  If you cannot possibly start at that time please inform me by letters addressed to Lansing Michigan, so that I can inform Bishop Scott. He depends upon going   written up the side of the page  with us at that time.