Tuesday morningDear Mamma:-
Your letter written yesterday has just come - quite swift for mail up here. Hasn't a package come for me from the Hodgman Rubber Co. Tuckahoe, N.Y.? I certainly thought I should get the stuff for my pouches before this. I certainly have needed it, for the old one wets through, and we have showers all the time. It has rained every day since we came, and I wish it would stop as the woods are so soaked through. But we have gotten out more or less almost every day in spite of the showers.
Saturday the view from Pine was lovely though there were still clouds over Washington. Saturday night was very clear and we thought the clear weather had come and didn't dare lose any so started Sunday morning. A man next door took us to Randolph, and it was a gorgeous morning, clear and cool. But before we got to the top of any thing it was all clouded over again. We stayed up at a hut for two hours or so and then made a turn around Mount Adams and came down. It never cleared up at all on Washington, so I fear Grace will not get there. She is sorry about that. We got some fine views above the tree line, and then started down, but almost immediately it began to rain, and we had a wet walk down. It didn't hurt us any, but is so inconvenient. I wrote you from the Ravine House where we spent the night. The Bloods are in Randolph, but of course we couldn't go to call. We took the early train yesterday to Gorham - in a shower! Then it cleared as we got over here and every one said we ought to be on Washington, but in a few hours it was raining and last night we had a terrific shower. This morning is still bad so I am trying to write some letters.
Tell Miss Safford not to forward my package from the Rubber Co. if she has not started it before this, for there'll not be time to make the thing up here, and if I go to Maine I shall not need it there.
Miss Smith is having a good time at Pemaquid and wants me to go down there. I'll have to decide pretty soon.
Do you get enough to eat if Mrs. Woodruff is not well? I am sorry Martha has not appeared. I hope it isn't too hard for Miss Safford. I wrote her to know if she thought you and she were getting on well enough for me to go to Maine. Of course I will come home if I am needed. I'll wait until I here [sic] from her before deciding.
Elizabeth McKee's sister Marion is over at Philbrook's as nurse for a little child in a family spending the summer there. She came over to call yesterday between showers, a nice girl.
The Mollers have been here this summer but have gone. Their camp was pretty well cleaned out by the robbers who stole so much around here this spring. The Stones lost a lot too.
Mrs. Evans, Miss Gates' sister, I saw out in the kitchen this morning. She was glad to hear about you. She seems as she did when we were here before.
I hope you'll have a nice call from Jane. I'm sorry not to see them. Please tell them so.
Much love to you. Please tell Mrs. Woodruff I am sorry she has not been well. Are the Hackett's still there?
Lovingly,
Abby