EMERITUS 265 



(S. W. J. TO L. F. E.) 



New Haven, July 5th, 1909. 



My dear Fred, — Last week Tuesday your Aunt Elizabeth 

 and Lily with ]\Iiss R., a trained nurse, took night train at 

 10 P.M. and reached Ashland at 8 A.M. Wed'y morning. 

 Tom and the cook followed on Friday. 



They write that the journey was comfortable and they are 

 enjoying the top of Shepard Hill very much. I am staying 

 here and feel like continuing to stay. The rest are booked 

 to go to Holderness on the 8th. Tom will return soon and 

 be here most of July. Your aunt and I are getting well along 

 on the back track; 2d childhood and renewed babyhood are 

 making both of us amusing to ' ' the rising generations. ' ' But 

 I have one compensation. The thermometer at 80° just suits 

 my feelings, and I can slosh around on New Haven's dead 

 levels much better than I can get over the rocky hills of the 

 old Granny State, and I can now look back on my 4108 weeks 

 of experience of this wicked world with the comfortable reflec- 

 tion that I have not much longer to trouble it or be troubled 

 with it. . . . 



(S. W. J. TO E. E. J.) 



July 10, 1909. 



Dear Elizabeth, — ... I have got into very old clothes, and 

 am running the shop on full time and getting up my muscle. 

 I have kept the grapes in good shape, and shall begin bagging 

 the clusters this P.M. I am trying to put my 3 rooms into 

 manageable condition — so that I can find what I want and 

 can't find the rubbish which has nearly swamped the furni- 

 ture, floors and chairs. 



Say to Miss R. that I hope she will gradually aid to develop 

 your (and her) muscle, — that I shall hear of your going down 

 to the Lake and up Shepard Hill back again on foot at least 

 once daily. Bye Bye, S. W. J. 



