[On "Madawaska Inn, Edmundston, NB" stationery, but the NB address is crossed out:]
"Somewhere in Quebec" -
Sept 28, 1927Katharine dear -
We spent the night at this New Brunswick Inn just over the Canadian line. Now we are fifty miles from there toward Quebec. It is going to make us a 200-mile drive but we got an early start and the day is gorgeous and we are entranced with the beautiful scenery which we cannot get away from for a minute. The only disappointing thing is the poorness of the homes - many of them very desolate in appearance - and the contrast to all the beautiful fertile country around is very striking and hard to understand. Of course there are some comfortable homes but the majority of them are not.
Every day has been clear. There was a heavy fog this morning lasting through the first hour of our trip and the effect of heavy fog combined with heavy frost was marvelous. The trees and all vegetation which would ordinarily have been frosty were loaded with ice as after an ice-storm. Father got out to rub mist from the windshield and found it ice.
[On Hotel St-Roch stationery]
Quebec, Sept 29, 1927
Katharine dear -
This is also "somewhere in Quebec" - a very definitive "soemwhere," and would you believe, it rains! But we are going to see the city just the same after we get the mail.
We were too late in arriving last evening to get it so that is first in our minds this morning. You can see where we are and it is a very nice place. We may (probably will) stay here again tonight getting an early start homeward in the morning. When we get home I'll get your coat off to you and here's hoping for a cold day. I do believe from this far distant point of view that it would be much nicer for you to entertain Herbert there. We shall be home only a few days before the 8th and when we get home my linoleum upstairs is going into the kitchen and a hard-wood floor into my room and we shall be quite unsettled. Of course we could leave things till after and let the kitchen be as it is but I imagine the best time for Herbert would be at Mt Holyoke. You would get home too late for any thing there (if there was anything which hardly seems possible.) You would find somebody in Mt H to help you plan "what to do" with him so you will have a nice time tho I know you are under a disadvantage this being so little acquainted. The other G-town girl could help, couldn't she?
We are anticipating seeing Uncle Leon very much but I think Father had better try to go to A. You see we have driven over 1000 miles already and it will be 400 or 500 more to get home and he rather feels that will be enough for a little while. I drive a part of the time, slowly, while he relaxes but most of the time he drives because distances have been pretty great and he does not like me to drive quite so fast as he feels he safely can.
Father has come now to take me to the P.O. and I am eager to go and get your letter. I hoep everything is fine with you.
I'd like to write more in reply to yours but time is quite precious today.
So with dearest love from both of us
MotherI don't know what address to give you but please have a letter at home for Tuesday.