Dear Mamma:-I'll write you just a little before I begin to study. I was actually too cool on the verandah in my dimity dress and so came in. I hope you have had rain to stop the fires. I had a letter from Emma tonight in which she spoke of fires down near Machias. We had several hours of nice steady rain yesterday and today is fine - clear and cool. I plan to take Wednesday and Saturday afternoon off anyway so this afternoon Anne [perhaps Anna Morgan] and I went down to Coy Glen again and she was fortunate enough to arrive just as one of the insects in her traps there was shedding his skin and coming out as a May-fly. She has nearly all stages now.
Then we went across the valley about a mile to a gorge on the other side, Buttermilk Gorge. The fall must be fully two hundred feet - twice as high as Prospect, tho by a series of steps. There is quite a stream, tho of course it is comparatively low now. It is fine - so many ferns and mosses. We went up beside the falls and followed a path up through the gorge. There were more thimbleberries than I ever saw and very good, tho those on the outside of the gorges are much dried. Some red raspberries too and blue-berries. The views of the smaller pools and falls were fine. I took some pictures and hope they come out well, but it is hard to know how long to expose the films where there is so little light. I haven't received the films that [I] had on the Lovell house. The ones I took of Emma and that Elizabeth took of me were n.g.
We came back tonight along a road having a splendid view of the whole valley. Anne had been to the gorge before, but never clear through and back by this upper road. I guess we walked six or seven miles probably.
We have this week a series of lectures by a Yale professor on physiological chemistry. They are splendid, but it takes about two hours from my other work each day as they break up the hours over there in a queer way. But they're worth it. The School of Agriculture has a magnificent building and must be very well run I think. We went up on the roof today - the highest place on the campus, that gives a view all around. I do like to get up high.
Dr. Dresback has planned my physiology work very well, but six weeks isn't long enough to turn around in really. The chemistry I do more with, but that doesn't get on fast, either.
I must get to work now. I've written to Dr. Sprague for an appointment and to Miss McWalter to see if she will make me a lab. skirt. I'm afraid she'll be away as she often is in August.
I'm glad you are having a pleasant time. It is nice that Bessee is there. Give her my love when you see her - and Mittie and Louise, too.
Love to you,
AbbyWednesday night