Dear Mamma:-It is a fine clear day again but so cool that we have a little fire in the fireplace. I am so glad our room has one both for pleasure and comfort.
We went up Mt. Whiteface yesterday, a very poor day as there was absolutely no view. But we had the fun of the climb. and at the top were right in the clouds - some of them below us, some above. It is a much longer trail than that up Chocorua, as there is no half-way house, but the trail was perfectly clear and only a little if any harder. The drive was much shorter. We went over to Wonalancet which is at the base on one side in the morning, and climbed up what is known as the Blueberry Ledge Train, because about half way up it goes over great ledges where there are many blueberries. They have big expeditions to go up and pick lots of them. Of course they were nearly gone by, but we found some very good. Then we came down to another side of the mountain where Mr. Hoag met us at four o'clock. We got there just about five minutes after the time we set. The clouds were most interesting, and we had a splendid time, just Miss Purington, Miss Smith & I. We had put it off from day to day hoping for a clear day, but didn't dare wait any longer. Miss Purington goes Friday - tomorrow - and Miss Smith and her mother on Monday. I shall miss them very much. Whiteface is about 500 feet higher than Chocorua - I guess it is higher than any I ever climbed except in the Tyrol and Switzerland. We aren't as lame, nearly, as after Chocorua.
One of the teachers at Mt. Holyoke was drowned on the Maine coast the other day by the upsetting of a sailboat - Miss Evans. She lived down at Mountain View. I didn't know her much. Last year was her first year, and everyone who knew her liked her very much. I presume you have seen about it in the papers.
I had a letter from Edith Wallace the other day. She has a position as instructor in Zoölogy at the Univ. of Maine, at Orono. I am very glad, and think she will do well. She has known Dr. Drew, the head of the dep't, and his wife very well at Woods Hole, and he has been very kind to her all along. But I shall not see her in Nashua for she leaves about the 10th so as to secure a boarding-place.
I am going to write to Mrs. Peavey today to ask her if I may have the use of the room. Did you say I was not to offer to pay her for it? I should feel queer not to. And does Mrs. Flanders still run her boarding house? I can't seem to make up my mind to go where we did last summer. What was the woman's name? In case I have to go there, it might be well to remember it.
I had a letter from Nan Lyman yesterday and think I shall stay with her on her island in Lake Winnepesaukee [sic] from Saturday to Monday. I shall send word to the Nashua postoffice for them to deliver my mail at Mrs. Peavy's for a few days. It is too long to go without it.
I'll put in this two postal cards [no longer with the letter] that we got at Wonalancet yesterday. One of them is a part of the view we had from Mt. Katharine the day we went over to Wonalancet and took our lunch out on the hill they call Mt. Katharine. Miss Ellis comes to Wonalancet today for two weeks. We hope to be able to see her - but we think we have a better place to stay than she has. I have marked the mountains on the back of one card.
Miss Smith sends her love.
With love to you,
Abby