11 September 1921Abby Dear:
I think I did not get the letter written to you along the end of the week, as I had intended. First, the time of my going to Farview has settled itself, for Teds has sold the whole farm and the new man takes pssession [sic] the first of October. Hence I go up next Saturday if possible, or the first day after that that I can leave a clean desk here, and stay until the first. There will be all my properties to attend to, my books to leave ready for storage where I can not peek into them, two barrels of stuff to repack and the rest to go over and weed out as mucha s [sic] I can.
It does break my heart to have the place go, but I do understand how the family do not care for that secluded life as I do, and want more of their sort of recreation, and it is heavy burden and expense for Teds to carry along, when they get so little true satisfaction out of it.
Anne Buffum is to come along the latter part of the week after this one, so that, also, requires my being there as chaperone, through if there were not the other factor, they could get along until I arrived a few days late. But I did promise Dorothea I would try to come to share Anne's visit as it will be so much happier for her to have me out there. Sister and Teds would not be comfortabele [sic] to have the girls out at Farview alone, and it is there that Dorothea had planned her fun. Jean may be with us and they will all amuse themselves a good deal, with their swimming and such sports.
I have read your Outwitting the Nerves and found it interesting and well done in sane simplicity and the sanatarium, or whatever she calls it must be an excellent place for lots of folks. You will not be surprised to hear that I delighted in her comments about going to bed early!
I had a letter from Hilda, extolling you and delighting in you and berating me for not lauding you together long before this! Talbot went up Friday and will fetch them home with him in two weeks, and they may be back when you are in New York. They would love to see you and in case Hilda did not prepare you with directions, here is address and telephone 68 West 107th Street, which is just east of Columbus Avenue. Telephone: Academy 1624.
Beryl's letters indicate intense homesickness and it must be awfully hard for her, b[u]t she says it will be less forlorn when college routine begins and she is submerged in work. Miss Newell called me up this forenoon to ask me to dine with her and Mr. Elwyn tomorrow night, if she can make arrangements with the gentleman. She has been tremendously busy with an mergency [sic] case or some special work, which has kept her at it day and night, so she had not been out to Floral Park to get her mail, and so had had bo [sic] word from Beryl since her first arrival.
There is no further report from Dr. Hopkins. Just the same all right assurance, but he is having the temperature record kept up another week and does the sputum test then. I hope to goodness he discharges me then for I am beastly tired of the ordeal. Thre is really is [sic] no serious wrong and while I am glad for the scientific corroboration, I shall be happy only when it is over. Miss Billings is so damn thorough and keeps after me each night. Dr. Hopkins made a lot more tests last Wednesday but I do not know what they indicate or mean, and did not ask questions. It is enough to know that he can not make me any pathological case of import. He may tell me the result of the blood urea test next time, and he did remark that there is some anemia, but not to be of serious consideration.
As soon as he let me loose, I ducked into the Museum and comsoled [sic] my agonized feelings by spending two hours with the Egyptian treasures.
They are fascinating and then I spent a few moments joying in the old Greek and Roman glass and scooted for Mrs. Hibbert. I did not go to the school at all that day, as having to go to Dr. Hopkins at twelve, broke into the day and it really was not necessary that I should go down to work, and I did some up here in the morning and as I was square with things Friday night, you see how much more one can do in a short time than oe [sic] usually does[.] I should not care to work as concentratedly every day in the week as I did the three of last week, but it left no trace that has not disappeared now.
You are so dear to suggest the coming to South Hadley and I hope you know how much I should love being with you. Also you will see how that is out of the question at present.
Charlotte writes that she will be back next Thursday, the fifteenth so I shall see her in her fresh fatness and glory of country colour. I think the farm where she is staying is called Hillcrest Farm, but I address care of Mrs. Elmer Moses. I had a dear letter from Mrs. McGowan today, who has a cottage near the Moses farm, asking me to come up to visit her.
Oh, Harry Barnard called me up Thursday night, trying to make an appointment to lunch or dine with me. As he had to go off to Atlantic City Friday and was closely drawn into the Chemical meetings here, it will have to sometime later. He had been in Nashua two weeks or so ago and said he saw Anna and Fred Cross and others, of whom he would tell me later.
I hope you have had pleasant days since leaving the Cove, and Oh, I am so keenly sorry not to see you when you are here in New York. I want to talk things, not write them! I know I had several things in mind to set down for you, but they elude me now and there have been several interruptions, folk who have forgotten keys and had to ring to get in, little breaks distractions, so that I may have repeated or failed to write things I think I may have said. To be sure, I might re-read and know what I am doing butI [sic] do not like to rub in what rot I do write. I love you, Dear, a heap, and I will end on that.
Yours
EvaSunday.