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CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 



July 31.1891. 



My dear Deane:-- 



I think that I intimated in my last letter to you that we 

 might decide to return to Madison sooner than I had intended when I 

 last saw you. That decision has been reached and we leave here next 

 Wednesday at 2:15. Mother and Lyle will gc^lirectly home, reaching Chi- 

 cago at 4:50 the next afternoon. Leaving there at 6 they will reach 

 M.at 10:25. I shall be with them as far as Battle Creek which we 

 reach at 12:22. There I stop till the next day, and leaving on the 

 same train reach home that evening at 10:25. The day will give me 

 time to arrange everything for Mary without being hurried, and we get 

 home at a comfortable time erf night. From some Madison friends who 

 stopped here on their way to Marblehead Neck I learned that our old 

 servant was inquiring when we were expected in order that she might 

 have the privilege (so she considers it) of putting the house in or- 

 der for us and staying until a servant whom she has in mind for us can 

 come. So we have written her and as she knows what and where every 



thing is we feel that things will be in good shape for us. She hersettJ 

 is to be married in Sept. 



Addenda matter. I inserted the short ones with pen,and made a 

 reference at the proper place to the long ones — "see p. 735c". 



Sorry that I shall not get to see you and Mrs.Deane again, but I 



expect to come on at Christmas. Mary WENT TO A PICNIC Wednesday--by 



the doctor's orders! Took a drive out to Goguac Lake, 3 miles. Haven't 

 heard what the result^was. Jfo '^(^ ( frzitLfrlli^ (^/^J0^. 



