ThursdayDear Mamma:-
We have had a mixture of weather today. This morning it was grey but Miss Smith and I followed a lovely trail we found when we were here before and had the longest walk we have had at all - about six or seven miles I think, only we got a lift for the last mile or so. We went up to the old fort at Pemaquid Beach, going much of the way along the shore and coming back by the road.
It began to rain at noon and rained and blew hard so that the water was decidedly rough. Miss Young has two guests here for two or three days, Vassar teachers, one a Mount Holyoke alumna who is teaching French, the other a friend of Mary Hogue's, in the zoölogy department. We feared their first day would have little out-of-door pleasure, but it stopped raining late in the afternoon so we went out to the Lighthouse to see the surf. No one can go inside the lighthouse grounds this year, but we went nearby, and the surf was great. It is really a wonderful place for that.
At suppertime we had fog, and now the stars are beautifully clear and ti is not cold at all!
Last night we saw the fire at Heron Island, where the hotel and some cottages burned. It is surely three or four miles away, but I could tell the time on my watch easily by the light of the fire. Sam was just leaving them when he wrote Wed. a.m. I'm glad you are going to see him. Did Mary call to see you? I hope you urged her to do that, even if you couldn't lodge her over night.
I guess the other folks are going to bed and in a house like this everybody has to go about the same time, so I must stop. Much love to you and to Miss Safford[.]