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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. GILMAN: 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. 

 Gilman 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 uncertain, I had it in 

 mind, should circumstances be favorable, to visit the 

 English colleges Girton 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 



