Watch Hill House
Watch Hill, R.I.
Gertrude, my dear, my dear:- if you could see what I see from my window this minute you would come - you couldn't help it.
It has been said & I think it must be true that there is no place equal to this on the Atlantic Coast. If you do not come when you are so near, it will be positively a moral wrong. Here, the mysterious, restless, boundless ocean in full-view on two sides of us & the bay on the third - with such a beach & such a view of cape & rocky promontory & light-house.
We have two fine rooms adjoining one another & as the season is early there are not more than twenty people in this great hotel. Consequently the price is less & the attention better & this week is the last one before the rush begins.
Dear, let one know by what boat to expect you. Come to Stonington & then take the little steamer across the bay & I will meet you on the wharf. Oh the moonlight nights on the beach, the reading of Mrs. Browning & Tennyson & the watching of the wonderful ocean! The salt air will build you right up. Come, come, come. We will not take no for an answer. Forgive the penciling & the scrap this time. I am but first unpacked with you on one side of my [bookcase?] & Miss Prentiss on the other. Love to May [Gertrude's little sister] & Come.