pockets and no paymaster in sight.. 



Cur trip he^e was without nishap. My wife, who wants 

 to be speeially remembered to you, and the little-one, who 

 speaks often of the ,t dotter H ( d octor , E. D. ) , arrived well in 

 Washington. Much contributed to this the one day stay at Nia- 

 gara« The raost troublesome part of the itinerary is the section 

 from New York to here. We travelled at night and had to change 

 cars t^ree times, had to take ferryboats three times, and an 

 Omnibus in Baltimore on top of all this, where we arrived in 

 soundest sleep at 2 o.e. in the morning and. half of us missed 

 the horse-railroad. My wife feit nauseated for several days but 

 was well otherwise. The Little-one played and slept through the 

 trip as is normal for a healthy child.- Yestefday my wife had 

 again severe cramps but today she feels better than ever». 

 HopefullJ" this is the last aftershock of a successful railroad 

 itinerary. We shall live at the boardinghouse of Mrs.Esterly 

 on Pensylvania Avenue.. Come soon, the^e is lots of room in 

 the house. The weather is fine, though a little cooler than 

 normal. Walks are extremely nice, the public place s kept very 

 clean and the landscape a mixture of hüls and Valleys, woods 

 and fields. I believe that Washington is the most beautiful 

 city in Amerika. I coneeive it as most gratifying, that one 

 does not see dandyfied merchants and the servants of merchants 

 with their arrosrance. The people one meets on the street are 

 modest and yet well dressed and appear more solid. Washington 

 may later perhaps become the most beautigul redidential city.. 

 I would like to make several remarks about local conditions, 

 if the post would not hurry me, as I would like to mail these 

 lines inmediately to you» . Should I send you a few minor items 

 from the collections and the cones ? and with which opportunity ? 



