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pletes and fills out my experience this summer. Nor 

 does the beauty of Nahant fade in the wonderful pic- 

 ture. I remember our sunsets and ask myself even 

 here if anything can be more beautiful, and I think 

 with delight of being there again. To be sure one 

 must allow something for the love of a lifetime, the 

 place where you were almost born and have spent all 

 your summers — that counts for something. 



TO MRS. ARTHUR OILMAN 



Venice, June 23, 1895 

 Dear Mrs. Oilman : Before this the quiet of vaca- 

 tion has fallen upon Radcliffe, the last words are 

 spoken for the year, and I hope that you and Mr. 

 Oilman are preparing for summer rest. Perhaps you 

 have already gone. 



I am afraid that you and he will have felt that in 

 being absent from Commencement I have neglected 

 my Radcliffe engagements. But the truth is that when 

 I left, although my plans were imcertain, I had it in 

 mind, should circumstances be favorable, to visit the 

 English colleges — Oirton and Newnham and the 

 rest. I did not do quite all that I had hoped, but I 

 passed a week in Cambridge and one in Oxford. I am 

 very glad to have done this, and I feel that I learned a 

 good deal which may be helpful, — not so much con- 

 cerning the methods of instruction (they differ so 

 widely from ours as regards general arrangement that 

 they could hardly serve as models for us), — but 

 regarding the domestic life. In that respect I made 



