Maple Hill Farm,
Leicester, Mass.,
Aug. 13, 1906.Dear Lucy -
I was glad indeed to get your good letter. So many of you girls are teaching!
It is beautiful to have a baby. He grows more interesting every day of his life. He now creeps and pulls himself up onto his feet by means of chairs etc. I think that he is more like the Southwicks in looks than my family. I have been very well and have for quite awhile done my housework and taken care of the boy. But the housework has very seldom been done in the best way. I have someone to help me now with the housework.
The baby loves to drive, and we three have driven long distances. Of course I am home almost all the time. I don't like to leave the baby for even a short time and of course I can't for very long because I nurse him. I hope that you will see him sometime.
Bertha Cole made me a short visit which I enjoyed. She is engaged.
Margaret Morse will probably make me a visit later on. She has been at Woods Hole studying the sea creatures.
May Field has written but not since she came home. She visited at college and they tell me that she has seen a good deal of the world. I don't know whether she is going back or not. We have had some hot muggy weather but today has been glorious.
Oh baby is to be christened, if all goes well, next Sunday in the Unitarian church in the town. I hope that he will be good. If you ever come to Worcester you must come to see us. We always have a cool spot under our maples. Oh, I do love the country. I have been on the hay-rake several times and driven in the hay-load. That was fun. My mother lives right in the car-line which she uses to come to our place. That makes it fine. If I live to be 100, I shall probably need my mother as much as I do now.
Well, I'll stop now and I hope that you will write again soon.
With love,
Ruth Earle SouthwickP.S. Notice how my envelope matches.