9/16/26 EC's letter to Hurst:
Mr. Riley Hurst
Cross Cut, Texas
Dear Riley:-
I was very glad to have yours of the 26th, and should have
written you sooner, I'm sure, but I've been kind of "under
the weather" and haven't been able to attend things like I
would like. I'm in hopes though that I can get back into
harness now and that things will go along alright.
Well, I'm glad to know that you have at least made a start
for yourself, though you may feel like that everything has
been against you, and you are almost down to the "bow-wows"
again with a great big debt hanging over you, you realize,
I'm sure, that it's through trials and hardships that a man
shows his real worth - for the fellow that will hollow "hands
up" and then just GIVE UP, and not put up any sort of fight,
doesn't mean very much, should he ever attain to anything
- and this I think has been given you very explicitly, more
than once, and under more than one circumstance; yet the same
lessons and the same laws apply in one condition as they do
in another, for the same lesson that says, "You have been
faithful over a few things," says "I'll make you lord over
many," and the man that isn't worthy of a trust of five
cents, wouldn't know what to do with a trust of five million.
Again I am sure you have often found that the hardest trials,
and the darkest hours, are just before success, and you have
seen many a man crumble, give away, under the stress, when
had he but pushed on but a few days, success would have
crowned his efforts. I know this applies in my case, and I'm
sure it applies in yours. I would like mighty well to be of
help if I could. I don't know just what I could do, or what
suggestion I could offer. Possibly the Life Reading for you
might be the very thing. I think you have one of the little
pamphlets. I'd be glad to get this for you, though it would
be several weeks before I could get to it. It should be, as
others have proven for other people, worth a great deal to
you through the rest of your life. It's necessary that we
have the full name given at birth, the place of birth, and
the day, the month and the year. If you will give us this,
we will make the appointment, and see if we can tell you
what's in store for you.
Yes, I often wonder if they realize in San Saba how I have
really labored to try and get a test there. [[
3777] and
[
5628] series] I certainly hope that this is carried out,
for I certainly believe that they will get production.
I'm going to write to Mother Moore to-day. I believe, if
you will only learn to "labor and to wait" all those other
conditions will work out to the best for yourself and all
concerned.
Let me hear from you more often, if you have the opportunity.
You know I am always glad to help whenever possible.
With kindest personal regards,
Sincerely, Edgar Cayce [EC:GD]
11/23/26 EC's letter to Riley Hurst:
Mr. Riley Hurst,
Paint Rock, Texas
Dear Riley:-
I was glad to have yours of the 15th. Sorry that you are
still having such trying times, but I genuinely believe that
you will be able to eventually work these out, and I am very
much in hopes much sooner than you anticipate at the present
time. If I remember correctly, a reading gave that the way
to straighten a hole was to fasten a link of casing above the
string of tools. Of course we can see how that this would
work if it can be done, and I don't see any reason why
a collar couldn't be fixed so that this could be worked
alright. I think it would be worth trying anyway.
I have had the saddest experience of my life, Riley, since I
last wrote you. My mother, you know, hasn't been very well
for two or three years. About the 15th to 20th of October
I was called to her bedside. She passed away on the 26th.
While we know we can't keep our mothers with us, we are never
prepared for such partings. I know that she lived the Christ
like life, and I know that she has gone to rest - but I
find it hard indeed to reconcile myself to these conditions,
and to take up regular routine life. Time and hard work
I suppose are the only things that will make us see these
things in their right light.
I am in hopes that they are coming along nicely with the well
in San Saba [See 5628-2]. I'm glad Grandma Moore is pleased,
and I certainly hope and pray she will live to see the day
that there will be an oil well in Rocky Pasture. I haven't
heard from her as yet, and will ask that you kindly remember
me to them when you write them or see them. I don't know but
what you didn't do the correct thing in not trying to force
an opportunity to talk to Lucile, for by the time you can get
straightened up, and as I told you more than a year ago, if
you will only keep yourself in the right track, and do the
right thing at all times, you will find that all these things
will adjust themselves to a much more satisfactory condition
than you would ever be able to do by trying to force an
issue.
Being away and delayed so long in my work, naturally the
requests have piled up, and it will be some little time
before I will have the opportunity to get to the reading you
request [Life Reading], but you keep in touch with me, and
I'll get this for you just as soon as I have an opportunity
- and I'm just hoping it will be as worth while to you as so
many others have.
Hoping that you'll let me hear from you more often, and with
kindest personal regards, I am
Sincerely, Edgar Cayce EC:GD
12/22/26 EC's letter to Riley Hurst:
Dear Riley:-
I was very glad to have yours of the 15th, and I realize that
you are kept very busy, especially when you are running tower
yourself, and I expect with such jobs as you say you have it
is mighty hard to get a man to look after it like you would
do yourself. This I understand is just about what has
caused some troubles and delay in Rocky - having to depend
on someone else and they simply jimmied things up. But I
am glad that you have gotten your hole straight and that you
have a good prospect for a well. I'm sure that you'll make
it, and I am in hopes that everything comes around in the
right sort of a way for you. Be sure, Riley, you apply what
you gain in the proper way, and more good will come to you
for your efforts.
We will try to get the Life Reading as soon as it is
possible, and I certainly hope that it works out as
well for you as it has in the lives of so many others.
By the way, our friend Dave Kahn spent a couple of days with
me about two weeks ago. Dave is doing fine now - is sales
manager for one of the largest furniture concerns in the
country - says he will soon be where he will be on his feet,
and recoup the losses that he sustained monkeying with the
oil business. I believe Dave is fixing to get married. It
is some girl in Oklahoma, I believe. Dave lives in New York
now.
No, we haven't had so awfully much cold weather. It is
about the same climate here I think as they have in San Saba,
though of course we have a great deal more wet wind, and the
fog mashes us down almost at times - so much water all around
us.
We are still keeping very busy - many, many weeks ahead with
our appointments, though we are not over-run with financial
contributions toward the work. About the same old story, and
many do in about the same old way - though there are a great
many that continue to let us hear from them, that we have
done work for. To illustrate same: The appointment this
afternoon is for a gentleman [
550] for whom we gave a reading
in Houston, Texas, sixteen years ago. He is now living in
Florida, and has been very well up until recently.
I am certainly sorry to know that Grandma Moore's health is
so bad. I certainly do hope and trust that she lives to see
oil flowing in Rocky Pasture. I believe she will - for the
operations there will go on until they do get a producing
well. They have already had some showings, I believe,
haven't they? What did Charlie Moore have to say about
the well? [[
5628] series]
Our little boy has been in bad shape for the last six weeks
- got badly burned - his nightclothes caught on fire. He
is on the improve, but will not be able to get about for the
holidays. This has made it hard on him as well as the rest
of the household.
Let me hear whenever you have the opportunity
4/29/27 Riley Hurst's letter to EC:
Grosvenor, Texas
I know you are wondering what happened to me. I came here
from Paint Rock in January and took some contracts to drill
in the dry field for the SinClaire oil has gone down so that
they are not doing any work now - so I have my tools staked.
I had to sell the rig at Paint Rock to get out of debt there
and if work don't pick up I may have to sell this one to pay
it out. Am on several deals to drill some wild cats but
don't know yet what they will amount to. I have been
thinking I would like to go back to Ark., this summer and try
to find that [cache?] if it is there and I believe the reason
we did not find it before is that we did not understand it
just right or did not get the readings right over the wire.
[...] is here with me now (Jim's boy) he said they had a good
showing of oil in Rocky Pasture and they thought they were
going to get it this time. I sure hope they do and [...] has
another baby boy about a month old and they are living at ...
I think she had better stay where she is now, don't you? But
the way [...] talks I am afraid she will not. I have not
been to San Saba since I have been here because I have been
afraid I would meet her and she might ask me questions I
would not have to answer. Don't know much news - so will
close. Answer soon.
Your friend, Riley
5/05/27 EC's letter to Hurst:
Mr. Riley Hurst
Grosvenor, Texas
Dear Riley:-
I was glad indeed to have yours of the 29th. Rather funny -
I had just given your name to someone for them to write you
concerning using information that might be given in drilling
for oil. Possibly you will hear from them - some people in
Florida. I don't know which ones will write you, but as I
told them, I'd rather them to have the information as you
would furnish it, without my saying anything, than my telling
them what you had said concerning same. So if you hear, you
can use your own discretion.
Well, I had been in hopes that you were going to make a
strike there at Brownwood. I'm in hopes, though, that things
will turn around now so that you will have plenty of work on
hand and you will be able to come out on the right side of
everything. You know I'm always glad to keep in touch with
all my friends. I want to be of help if I can. I certainly
don't want to be a hindrance in any way.
I'm certainly glad to know that they have good prospects in
San Saba. I don't know of anything in the world that would
give me any more satisfaction than for them to bring in
a good big well in Rocky. I'm hoping and praying and
trusting they will. [
5628-4]
You didn't say what Charlie had to say about Grandma Moore.
How is she getting along now? She was in very poor health
the last time I heard, and although I have written a time or
two I haven't heard from any of them lately.
Well, Riley, I don't know what to say about Lucile. Possibly
you have begun to change your mind to some extent, yet I
am sure deep down in your heart she will always occupy a
position as no one else ever could or can, and you must not
judge too quickly, nor be too harsh in your judgement, for
time along will work out those things, and we can see now -
possibly - why it wasn't best to be other than it has been to
the present time, and the time that is before us depends upon
what we do with it. Don't be afraid, however.
Now, respecting the treasure - I don't know what to say
Riley. I'd be very glad to try to be of help if it is at all
possible. I have had some experience in the last few months
with such a proposition - something I know several of us have
worked on real hard - in fact I gave two or three weeks of
my own time to it, and while the information seemed direct
enough, still we have never been able to make a location
that proved the theory we were working on. [See Florida
Readings.] Hugh Lynn has been talking about coming out there
and helping you with it, if you decided to go back there this
summer. We will possibly be away from here the better part
of next month, and (going to Kentucky) if you decide to go
over there he may come on from Kentucky to meet you. We'll
talk it over when he gets home from school, and in the
meantime you let us know what you decide about it, and
we'll see what can be done.
Let me hear from you whenever you have the opportunity. I'm
glad to say we are all real well, keeping mighty busy, and
it looks very much like I will have the institution by the
middle of the summer anyway.
With kindest personal regards and best wishes.
Sincerely, Edgar Cayce EC:GD
5/27/27 EC's letter to Hurst:
Mr. Riley Hurst,
Grosvenor, Texas
Dear Riley:-
Certainly very glad to have yours of the 18th, and to know
that you had spent a very pleasant few days in San Saba.
Certainly glad to know that everything looks pretty good
there - crops in pretty good fix, and that my friend Willmott
is getting along alright with the well in Rocky. Certainly
glad to know that Grandma Moore is getting along nicely. I
had a mighty nice letter from her a few days ago, and will
write to her the first chance I have. Certainly sorry though
to hear of Mr. Autrey's death. Hope though that Fay and Mrs.
Autry are getting along alright. Yes, Mr. McConnell had a
pretty tough time of it. I am in hopes though that things
will come around alright.
Glad to know that Sanders is getting along alright. I
certainly am in hopes that he has changed somewhat in
regards to his attitude towards some conditions.
Who did Kate Fagg marry? I hadn't heard that she had
married? I certainly would like to see all of those
people again.
Did I tell you about seeing Butler [Alfred D.] when I was
in Florida? He has married, you know - married a girl from
Birmingham, and I think is going back there to live. He has
been in West Palm Beach for about two years.
I am hoping to get my Association in shape in the next two
weeks or such matter. I don't know just how soon we will get
the institute started, but I think before the first of July,
if everything goes alright.
Let me hear from you every chance you have. With kindest
personal regards from all, I am
Sincerely, Edgar Cayce EC:GD
