August 16Dear Mamma:-
I will write a little before we go to bed. We had a first rate trip down. The boat was very comfortable. We had time in Belfast to go up into the town and get breakfast at a little hotel before the boat left for Castine. Things move somewhat moderately down here! We reached Castine about 10:30 after a lovely ride across the bay. There was no one to meet us and we stood around on the dock quite a few minutes waiting. A party out on a very pretty sloop seemed interested in us, but I couldn't recognize anyone and of course didn't expect to see anyone I knew. But after a while the boat got in and there were Lilla Clement and her sister! She had dinner with me once this year, you know. They are at the same place here, and so are a classmate of Miss Smith's and her husband and a University of Maine professor and his wife. He is a man in the Zoölogy department. The boats are fine - and Capt. Gray and his wife are nice vigorous fairly young people. There are about fifty here, and many things are very pleasant, though the house is by no means are well equipped as Miss Gates'. The board is pretty good - steamed clams tonight, and apparently plenty of it. The room isn't much good, but we may be able to change after a little. We had a beautiful walk this afternoon. Our trunks came through with us which was very convenient.
We'll be going to bed now, I think. I hope you're all right. We have one mail a day, about 2:30 P.M., but I've no idea how long it will take to get mail.
Please give my love to Miss Dean. I hope the doing of the floors was not too much work.
With much love,
Abby-Virginia Church Crocker and her mother were on the wharf at Northport as we passed through this morning. I had a few minutes' pleasant chat with her.