A Letter written on Oct 16, 1899

Mt. Holyoke College
So. Hadley, Mass.
Oct. 16, 1899

Dear Charles,

It got to be the end of your week during which I could write you at Chevy Chase and as nothing more was heard from you it was not possible to tell where you were - you have a year to get settled in before I pull up stakes. I haven't done any thing but talk, as yet, about finding my proper place in that big world. However it is quite likely that there is something doable. The leaves have been coming off very fast during the last two or three days. The maples along the street are nearly bare. Last week house hunting had a rest but it must not rest too long. Exeter life is wearing on all three who stay there all the time. Alice has no one of her age to associate with and nothing to stimulate her to new thought or act. I am coming to the conclusine [sic] that a change wouldn't be bad. But to find the kind of a house that I want where I want it and for what we can pay is the squeeze.

Josephine Clark buried her mother Saturday. She may not be able to come back at all, not for two weeks any way. So you are now a prof. with one pupil. How did Gales happen to start a laboratory. He doesn't seem like a man with a college education. Why don't other people know about him? Is he a young man and what is he trying to do?

Well I hope you and the rest of us will find the place best suited to our abilities. It is chapel time and time to get to work.

Good Bye
Seraph