A letter dated 1/5/53
11 Summit Court, St Paul, Minn.
From Thea (grand daughter of Mary Louisa (FROST) Hull
To Florence MINTON

Dear Cousins:
Now that the holidays are over, we can settle down to do some of the things we have left undone, and one is a letter to you. Will, (your father, Florence) once asked me if our maternal grand parents were English. They were very much so, both coming from England. For some years, Lucia has been doing a good deal of ancestral research for both of us at the State Historical Library, and we thought your children as they grow older might be interested in that ancestry.
Our (meaning Will and mine) grand mother, Mary Louisa Frost Hull’s ancestor, Elder Edmund Frost, came from England in 1635, to Cambridge, Mass. He helped plan Harvard College in 1637 and helped found it in 1639 and was one of its first governors. He gave all he could to Harvard and he with his wife is buried just outside the Harvard gate. His church is gone but the cemetery is still there.
Our grandfather, Samuel Wood Hull’s ancestor, Richard Hull, came in 1634, and was a founder of New Haven, Conn. And of Yale University and was also a member of the General Courts. The earliest crcord of the Hull family we can find is that Henry Hull, in the eighth century gave the land at Cambridge, England for St. John’s Hospital, which was afterwards turned into St. John’s College.
We were very glad to learn you were in good health again. Cousin John, and now that Cousin Florence is relieved of the care of Bettie and the Children, hope she soon will be herself again.
Lucia joins in love to both.
Sincerely, Thea