Dear Mamma:-The days have been lovely this week. I am sure it can't have been hot in Nashua until today. Yesterday eight of us drove to Shelburne Basins, or to the bars [barns?] where we left the horses last year. We had carriages instead of that awful hay rack, I'm glad to say. The road up is much as you saw it last year, only we went way up. After a while Miss Smith and I took to the brook and walked up the ledges and boulders a half mile or more. The other ladies kept to the road and missed half the beauty. The pools and falls are lovely ones, even with the brook rather low. Miss Smith and I also went in wading, around the bend from where the other ladies sat. None of the party were those who went last year, but they
hadhave some of them been here other years, and we found them very pleasant indeed. One woman is here a few days while her husband and son tramp the whole Carter-Moriah and Presidential Ranges.Today I took Miss Smith up Middle. We started about mine and got back at half past twelve, with an hour or more on top. We came down quite nimbly, and she went up first-rate. It doesn't seem as if I could have her here and not have her go up Mt. Washington.
Mrs. Dewey has come back, and the Stones have lots of company. I don't see where they put them all. There are two automobiles and they are having a fine time.
Thursday I am going to Bethel to see Olive Ware for the day, down on the morning train and back on the five o'clock. The trains do not run so she can come here very well, I'm sorry to say.
Miss Brown and another lady, a friend of Miss Whitney's, went down yesterday with Mrs. Smith and we have heard that she got there all right. I am glad she did not try to stay longer as she was not a bit well, and was growing worse, but I guess Dr. Worcester will help her. Miss Smith says Mr. Larrabee is getting on very well at his new work in Newburyport. Miss Smith is sending you one of the new post-carsd of the house. Miss Gates got Mr. Shorey to take several views this year, and has them here to sell. This one was taken just about at the bend of the road where you see Washington and Madison, but the mountains are rather faint. You will see them if you put on your glasses and look sharp.
I had a letter from Nell Swift today. She says her mother has failed a good deal. They have two nurses now beside the housekeeper, but Nell thinks that really more than is needed, and has one new nurse engaged to see if she can get along alone. Nell has gotten away only twice for two days each all summer.
There was a fire down the road tonight, but I think it was only a big bonfire, for it burned like that.
With much love to you,
Abby.Please remember me to Mrs. Emerson, and to Mrs. Peterson and Miss Butterfield.