SHELBURNE 

 NEW HAMPSHIRE 



Sunday, May 30,1938. 



dear Dsaae:- 



Thia rainy day gives me the 

 best of sxaases for spaading a part of it in writing 

 to my less fortuaats Shelburniati friends. I wish yoa 

 oould all have been here daring the three days after 

 my arrival^ on Monday. It swas saoh weather as we always 

 desoribe as „Shelbarne weather", splendid sanshine, f resh 

 oool air, act too oool for garden work. I found my gar- 

 den in fair oondition, though the winter had been rather 

 too fflili for the best results. 



I found NTank ready to take 

 hold, and we put in three solid days of useful labor. 

 Again I am surprised at the way things grow here as 

 oompared with Cambridge . It seems to me that on this 

 hill -top the sun gets in more work in the same time than 

 with us. iy perennials are quite amazingly big, - Ori-' 

 ental popies twelve to eighteen ino:bes high, pansies 

 beginning to bloom, oolambines in oi amps ten inobes 

 in both dimensions. The Madonna Dilies which suffered 

 so badly from blight last year, have sent up good big 



