[Some paragraph marks added for ease of reading]Templeton, April 12, 1906.
Dear Lucy,
This letter came today, and thinking it might be something that Mr. Blodgett should see at once, I opened it, since, I have looked through your tin trunk to see if any record or receipt was there, (though I did not think there was.) and now I will send the letter and a paper and mem. that I found, to you. I don't suppose the papers will do any good but I thought I would send them to you and you can do as you please about sending them to Mr. Warren. I suppose they are sure, are they not, that she had not sent an account of her first year as administratrix to the Probate court? If she had done so, they could probably get a copy of it. I know or think that they many times, perhaps usually, send a first account, then at the end a final account. I sent one before I sent the final. But of course Mr. Warren knows all about such things. It seems as if there would be some papers concerning it unless she had done that, and even if she had I should think she would have kept receipts &c. I hope I have done nothing out of the way in opening the letter and looking in the box, but thought I might save time and trouble by doing so.
I am feeling better, though my stomach troubles me a little. I am trying to make Mary's dress but get along so slowly. I am getting quite anxious for fear I am not going to get it done. She does not know how she is going to manage about going, she expected she was going to the Burnham but Miss Cook talks of going there and if she does Mary cannot, if Miss Cook does not come, Carrie is to have an operation on her throat, and of course can not go, and in that case Mary says she will not go to the Burnham's. She asked Carrie today about it, and that is what she found out.
It seems a little strange that they did not let her know just how it was sooner. I don't know what she will do, and am afraid she will not have a good time if she goes, for I don't suppose any one will invite her to dance, and if Carrie is not there and Ida Blanchard thinks she (Ida) will not go, I think she will feel pretty lonesome in spite of her new dress.
What have you decided about inviting Mrs. C- to come home with you? You ought to give her time to plan, and I want to know a little ahead. Do you keep the 19th? If you have to why don't you wait till Friday morning to come: thought I should grudge the time wasted. Well, you fix it as you want and I will fall in. I would advise you to tell Mr. Pratt that you must know if you are going back there, so you can look up another place if you are not. There is not much news in this but maybe I shall do better next time.
Much love,
Mama.