PENIKESE ISLAND 169 
end, many dozens of glasses and fifty-six chamber 
sets containing all the ordinary pieces. In the midst 
of our work Sunday afternoon we had a visit from 
a fashionable New York yacht and Robert Minturn 
and Mr. Holyoke came up to see us. It was a lovely 
afternoon, we were all on the piazza washing glass 
and china, and they seemed to think it quite a de- 
lightful picnic. We were able to muster a cup of 
coffee and tried to be as hospitable as circumstances 
would admit. Here then, we stand — today we are 
to unpack the furniture and we intend to place 
the little belongings of every person together so 
that it shall represent a room, though not of course 
partitioned off. I will write you tonight the result 
of our chamber work. 
In the biographies of Agassiz and Alexander Agassiz 
accounts may be found of the school and its future fate, 
which there is no need of repeating here. The following let- 
ter from Miss Emma Cary, however, adds an animated 
description of the life on the island, as it had been depicted 
to her by Mrs. Agassiz. 
FROM MISS EMMA F. CARY TO MISS SARAH G. CARY 
Nahant, July 17, 1873 
LizziE is very pleasant telling about the island life. 
Do you remember a genial element in Charles 
Auchester in spite of its nonsense — as if they were 
on a perpetual artistic picnic? There is the same 
feeling at Penikese; enthusiasm, romance, open 
air, discomforts, very good food, science, colonies 
