Dear Mamma:-This is a beautiful day, with such a breeze that I really wasn't warm enough out-of-doors without my sweater. I hear that someone is going over to Whiteface this afternoon, so I will try to get this done before dinner though it will have to be a short letter.
I am glad you like your fountain pen. It seemed to me a good one, and I hope it will prove so.If they haven't fountain pen ink at the house, you'll have to buy a bottle, for ordinary ink will not do.
I am glad your dress is getting on. I guess the woman will get my corset-covers done. It isn't such a big job. I'll put the rest of the lace in this. [no longer with the letter] Two of them you see I plan to draw up with ribbons instead of with tapes - but I will write the woman about them when she sends them on.
Thanks for Jessee's letter. I hope she will not neglect to take a vacation for she surely needs one, and ought to have one. It's too early to plan for next summer yet, but I'd surely like to see her somewhere, though I think she needs an out-of-door life like this more than a Chautauqua crowd. Lucy Baker says Chautauqua is so crowded that Jamestown people don't like to go up there any more. She used to go very often.
There isn't much to write about. We go to walk a good deal and don't do anything worth mentioning. The country is lovely, and the air is fine. Yesterday was rainy so I managed to finish up my Cornell notes in Physiology. I hadn't had time to do that, and it took several hours. I have a few little jobs of mending to do, and I must begin pretty soon to plan my work for college.
I had a postal card from Elizabeth Shearer from Holland - the Hague - she has been having a fine summer. Miss Purington heard from Miss Searles who has been in the English Lake Region, and from Miss Bertha Young who has been in Cortina. It makes us want to get over there again.
Tuesday we hope to climb Chocorua but shall not go unless it is a clear day for the view. Tomorrow there is some sort of a Quaker church lawn party here in the evening. Don't know exactly what it will be like.
I have to stop now and dress for dinner.
Love to you,
Abby.