Dear Mamma:-It takes mail a long time to get or leave here, so don't be surprised at the delay. I received your postal yesterday and was glad to know you are all right. You ought to have gotten various communications from me before Sunday.
It is surely a lovely place. We had such a nice day yesterday. In the morning a party of us went out with Capt. Gray in the motorboat fishing for flounders. I never really fished before but I caught one flounder, two sculpins which are no good and very ugly, one crab, one starfish! I felt that I hadn't really mastered the art of fishing but it was rather fun. Then in the afternoon we went sailing on the pretty yacht whose picture is on the little yellow folder. It's the prettiest boat I ever sailed in, and Capt. Gray manages it splendidly. The sailing seems so much safer than around Woods Hole. There aren't the narrow channels with rushing tide currents. And we are so far from the open ocean that there is seldom any surf. It is a lovely place.
We've been in bathing too, and found it far less cold than we expected, though we couldn't stay long.
This afternoon we went around to the settlement called Cape Rozier to church. A man from East Orange preached very well. We saw the Fairlees, two of whom are Holyoke girls, the two brothers James and Ned Fairlee and the children - They are over about two miles from here and we shall go to call as soon as we get to it. Today has been gray and rainy and it may last tomorrow I am afraid, but Friday and yesterday were beautiful. Perhaps if it rains I may get a little work done. Several 75th letters have followed me up already! But I shall do as little as possible.
The woods here are a good deal like those at Pemaquid, but there is much less of the ocean wind. I grieve to say that the mosquitoes are very thick! I brought only a small bottle of my fly dope, and I wonder if Miss Dean would be willing to send more? The main bottle, I think, is on the shelf in the bathroom. There is a mailing case which Ann sent me in the bottom drawer of my desk. The bottle in it can be taken out adn the fly dope bottle wrapped up in tissue paper and put in. Perhaps the bottle is too tall to leave room for a safe pad at the top, but I think there is an empty smaller bottle which had those marguerite slips in it which would hold enough, but if it isn't too much bother we should find the stuff a comfort. We used half what I had this forenoon I think. They develope [sic] in the fresh water pools among the rocks.
The blueberries are fine this year - very large and tender. They are still very plentiful. There are some raspberries left, too. The blackberries aren't quite ripe, but we've seen two or three black ones. We have fairly good board - but no lobsters, alas!
Elizabeth is about ready to go to bed so I must stop. I hope you're all right. Be careful not to slip on the new floors.
Remember me to Miss Dean.
With love to you -
AbbySunday night