My dear Herbert
I have just found the letter to Dean wh[ich] you wrote about. I send with this. I found another the day you went away or the next sealed & directed to Dean & mailed it. I supposed that was the one you first wrote about.
Your letter came and was most welcome. Am sorry for your loneliness, but glad you love home. You will soon be interested in your studies, and I hope will be happy in the work you have to do.
Ed. came & staid Sab. & Mon. Yesterday I went with him to Boston & we were together nearly all the time till 4 1/2 when we bade each other good bye just at the Mission House door where we parted from you. In the morning just before we left Auburndale. Mama started for South Hadley to see Miss Parsons about going to Harpoot. Also to see Miss Bray who thinks of going to Mardin. I wish she could find some good lady for our dear Edward, but the Lord will provide. It is possible that Ed. will go out with us this fall. I am sure he would go if he should find the person he is looking for. We called to see Haritune yesterday. I learned that Hurant has come to Boston, is staying with Stefan waiting for his father to send money so that he can go to school.
Annie is still at South Natick. The children are over the measles here & no other one seems to be coming down with the disease. She will be here this P.M. for a music lesson. If no one comes down by Sat. she might then come back.
Mama will return tomorrow and she will probably put off her visit to Clifton Springs till a few weeks later.
How do you get on in Mathematics? resolve to be interested in it & I am sure you'll succeed. Just the discipline you get in that is probably just the best thing for you at present. You know the body needs most exercise in the lacking parts to secure symmetrical developement. [sic] And we must think the same way in the developement [sic] of the mind.
We are having warm weather down this way. For three days it has been like summer. We are getting our boxes ready to send off soon. No letter has come from Harpoot this week.
The news this morning looks as though a struggle between England & Russia must come. Russia's course seems designed to bring on war. It may result in great changes in the East. With a great deal of love from
Papa
O. P. Allen
I am glad you like your room mate. I dont know anyone in Batavia N.Y. I hope your sad feeling will pass away as you become interested in your studies. It is the best way to accept cheerfully what must be and believe that is best for us. You remember the hymn "I shall look back & see the way I went & that alone was best for me"
Wed. P.M. Nan just came home. Takes music lesson & goes back, will come Sat. if no more measles appear