298 ELIZABETH CARY AGASSIZ 
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 GILMAN 
Venice, June 23, 1895 
Dear Mrs. Giiman: 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 
