ranging from fifteen to twenty-five. I am going to be so boastful as to tell 

 you that I won thirteen of my first fifteen sets, notwithstanding the faot 

 that I am approaching n^r sixtieth birthday and wear bifocal glasses. 



Our wealthy Jaffrey sunmer residents, the Pope Yeatmans, have just given a 

 S^ldiana for the Joint benefit of the Jaffrey Village improvement Society and 

 some similar organisation of Peterboro. It was held on one of the large and 

 beautiful estates in Peterboro and was very beautiful as well as full of moments 

 of excitement. One of the most striking stunts was an egg and spoon race. This 

 was popular and I think there must have been a dozen or fifteen young people en- 

 tered. Think of trying to carry an egg on a spoon while racing around a circui- 

 tous course on a frisky young horse. There was also good jumping of high hur- 

 dles on horseback, an amusing obstacle race, and a relay race in which saddles 

 had to be changed. One spirited young woman fell from her horse twice, her 

 saddle coming off. This to the ordinary mortal would have seemed sufficiently 

 discouraging, but she picked herself up, caught her horse, picked up her saddle, 

 replaced it, mounted again each time and rode on to the end of the race. 



We are this summer living in "fidgewood" and like it much better than we had 

 anticipated. Indeed, Margaret is beginning to wonder whether she does not pre- 

 fer it to the cottage which we usually ocouEy. "Sdgewood" where we now are is 

 the cottage we built for the Spelmans as you may remember. 



The poor Spelmans, our hearts go out to them and they are much in our thoughts. 

 You have doubtless heard of the death of their eldest daughter, Elizabeth. 



The summer has seemed very short to us and in less than two weeks we have to 

 go back to aa-iibridge. 'fhe British Association for the Advancement of Science has 

 been meeting at Toronto this year and several botanists who have been to the 

 meeting and are now traveling in Anerica have signified their intention of visit- 

 ing the Gray Herbarium between Sept 7th and Sept. 18th — ^Major Ohipp, the assis- 

 tant director of the Hoyal Gardens at Kew, Prof. Ostenfeld of Oopenhagen who is 



