Friday morning, the llth, we awoke to find the wind from the 

 Northwest but the clouds looking very wet . 



Kenry left us shortly after eight o'clock, a car of his Com- 

 mission having come up for him, and he left in it for Clinton where 

 he had some work to do. He subsequently reached Boston just in time 

 to be present at William H. Baldwin's funeral services. 



We left shortly before nine o'clock and went to Hubbard s ton. The 

 roads were so wet and slippery that I determined that it was not best 

 to attempt the road via Shutesbury nor even to go to Templeton but to 

 select what was generally reported to be the better road to Gardner. 

 That road was none too good. It was slippery and very muddy and we 

 got some decided jounces. There was a little rain from time to time 

 but not enough to induce us to put up the top. Will and George went 

 with me, and Frank with Prentiss. 



We went from Gardner in the line of the railroad through At hoi 

 and Orange and Montague to the Connecticut River and then South to south 

 Deerfield which we reached shortly before ten o'clock and where Mrs. 0 [ 

 Rosie Ahearn (nee Warren) gave us a good lunch in a private dining room 

 at the Warren Inn. After lunch we read an account of the South Deer- 

 field massacre at Bloody Brook and then went back half a mile and found 

 the brook and the monument. Then, starting again South we went to 

 North Amherst and through the grounds of the Amherst Agricultural College 

 then to Amherst and through the grounds of Amherst College and on to 

 Northampton where Frank called at the office of his son Fred Wildes 



who went with him and the rest into and through the grounds of Smith 



where 



College, it being Commencement season, and A they also visited the green 

 houses and botanical collections of Prof. Ganong, while I walked over 

 to the Whites and made a visitation call on them finding Mrs. Whiee and 

 Jean at home, Mr. White and Katherine being on their way from New York 



