Dear Mamma:-I'll mail the Congregationalist tonight and also send a check to Mr. Heald for next year. He is to have a club, he writes. I'll not bother to have the address changed before then, it's such a short time.
You wrote your last letter better than any of the others. No knowing how much you will get able to do yet. I'm glad you can get undressed by yourself, for it will make you feel more independent. But don't try to do too much.
Dr. Lowell telephoned to me this morning and says she has been sick. I must try to get over to see her some night this week. She is so deaf it is very hard to telephone to her.
There is a splendid collection of pictures at the Art Museum now, loaned by Frick, one of the big steel men, for two weeks. I went in Saturday noon a few minutes and shall try to go again. They are fine ones by the big masters, about fifty in all. The place was crowded even though it was just about lunch time. Today I walked part way out from church and saw certainly as many as twenty five people trying to get
itin. The museum is open at one on Sunday and this was before 12:30.I went to hear Dr. Gordon who preached today at the Central Church. I had never been in that church in the daylight before. The windows are extremely beautiful - Berkeley and Newbury, it is. As I walked out I saw the service at the Christian Science church was not yet over. I had never been in there, so stepped in. The place was full - a huge auditorium too. There are sentences from Mrs. Eddy and the Bible, alternating, engraved on the walls. The last hymn had just been finished. As the people stood the reader read a few sentences from the Bible and from Science and Health, also a published letter of Mrs. Eddy's written evidently about the time she left active life, telling how her interest &c would be with them. Then he said, "These words are as true now as when written several years ago.["] I have to inform you that Mrs. Eddy passed out of our sight last night at her and perhaps Mrs. Evans too (Miss Gates' sister). They were so kind. You might even send one to Dr. Phipps. He surely deserves one. It'll take you quite a while to get them ready to send. We'll plan about it next Sunday.
Do you have Miss Butterfield move your plant back from the window at night? I'm afraid it will get frozen, but I presume you have attended to it.
I have an invitation to Miss Woolley's annual faculty dinner (supper this time) for the 14th. It is nice of her to remember those who are away.
With much love -
Abby