Dear Mamma:-Elizabeth and I have been to church. There is a new minister and I'm glad to say that he is better than the last one. We saw Dea. and Mrs. Warfield, also one or two others whom I have met before. Buckland is certainly lovely now. The rainy days earlier in the week have freshened everything up beautifully. I don't know whether the laurel we sent would reach you in any shape or not, but it was as fine as any I ever saw, and there is so much of it - great clumps that look like huge bouquets among the trees and in the pastures.
Friday forenoon we picked some and sent it off. Friday noon we had a hard shower, but it cleared off and we went around to the birthplace in the afternoon. The cinnamon roses are just in their glory - a place half as big as the house you live in - oh, quite as big I guess, just covered with those fragrant blossoms, and no sign of any sort of bug on them. We went up to the top of the big hill and the view was fine, Monadnock as clear as could be, also the Holyoke range to the south. We came home down through the Deacon's pasture and stopped a few minutes there.
Yesterday forenoon we didn't do anything particular, but in the afternoon we took the stage to Ashfield, and then walked back around a long way through a place they call Little Switzerland. The views are fine and it was a nice cool day for walking. It is so good to be doing things with Elizabeth again.
A Mrs. Woods, an aunt of Miss Greene, the registrar, is here at the little Inn and we find her very pleasant. She has the clippings I saved for you, but will return them. I'll send them when I connect with a large envelope. The Inn we find very clean and comfortable with fairly good food. I am glad it is such a good place for I may want to come again, and it doesn't cost much. They have a bathroom and hot and cold water like Miss Gates.
Tomorrow we go on to Boston and I have heard from Mrs. Johnson that we can have one of her big rooms, probably the one downstairs, which will be nice and cool. I foresee a hot spell now. You know the address there, 10 Humboldt St., Cambridge, Mass. I shall be glad to get there, though Mrs. Lord was very kind, and my room was comfortable and the food good. I shall send over for my trunk and suitcase as soon as we get to Boston.
Next Saturday I shall try to have Miss Dean go to Nashua to see you but if she has left Boston it may not be feasible. I should like to have you see her before the bargain is concluded, but all I can learn is surely very favorable. Some of the Peterson Lodge ladies remember her and both Dr. Clapp and Dr. Hooker approve. Dr. Clapp's sisters are thinking of taking the house three doors down the road, but they are afraid that the owner will not put the town water into it. They will not take it without the water, of course.
I'll tell you about Commencement when I see you. It is too much to write. Elizabeth sends her love. She will be up with me Saturday. We shall not stay over night and I'll write you about times later. I think I'll write a note to her to see if she'll feed us for I don't want to ask Jessee to. I do hope Fred is better. He may have no further trouble. I surely hope so. The irritation of all that liquid probably caused his cough. I shall try to have Miss Dean stay only a short time, half an hour or an hour, but I can't really plan until I connect with her or her relatives in Cambridge.
The dinner bell has rung, and we are hungry.
Much love to you,
Abby.