Cumbe rland C ent er, Mai. 
July ITT, 1.909. 
Dear Collins:— 
I ought to have written to you a 
long time ago, but there have been so many things 
to do and on the whole I have been so tired 
that I have not written all that’ I might have#, 
For one thing, to warn you , I have a new make 
of typewriter, a Lfr' C. Smith visible, and the 
letters run a little different in some things, 
so you may be preparred for a few errors.. 
I have taken it on a rental for one or two months 
but do not know how I shall like it. The agent 
has offered it to me for $70 on the instalment 
plan if need be?* -y I do not know what to think 
whether to try -ig^r this way, or to wait until 
X get to Hew York and there get what is called 
a rebuilt machine. That is, one which has some 
of the letters repaired. There are some good 
firms there that deal in such things, and I had 
one of the machines all last winter. I wish 
you would tell me just what you think about the 
question of machine, new or old. 
The Josselyn Metting passed off after a fash- 
iom 0. W. Knight disappointed me and a lot 
of the others. Nevertheless the nominating 
committee put in the same old board of officers 
The trouble is. there is no one in the Society 
who is at the same time a good executive and a 
resident of the 3tate, save Dr. Fellows. E*uV 
not only did not attend all of the meetings, 
(part due toa very bad tooth) but he did not even 
(ijWp ^Bfccp^d&dthe 'hotel at Peaks Island; stayed in P 
' Portland. There were not over tLL nine out 
(P 
of 22 that stayed at the hogel, and not all of 
those all of the time. Knight cannot preside 
at a meeting any more thar} a cow, and a lot of 
the usual courtesies were allowed to slide 1 . 
I dida ,! t intend to run the whole thing for him. 
Inow have the usual job of the Bulletin 
3±mply because there is no one else to do it. 
f^think there will be nothinhg done in the futu¬ 
re unjess there are a few more workers brought 
in to the members. 
But, whaf's the use. Here 
I am at Cumberland using a friend r s house, or 
rather part of it, and no place in sight where 
we can go to for a home of our own? Mother 
has been very sick a good deal of the time since 
the first of June, and noV is onlfr in the start 
of getting well . She is not at all strong. 
